Brain-Body Music Performance
We develop new music performance paradigms with the help of the research projects at GTCMT. One example is Vessels, an ongoing performance project by Grace Leslie. It represents several years of engineering, some of it collaborative, and an equal number of years of involvement with music-based meditation practices using brain waves as a means of biofeedback training. This project reveals brain waves as converted into a sound by means of an algorithm that imprints their spectrum onto a bank of recorded samples of flute and singing voice sounds. The result is a slowly transforming architecture of sound driven by body physiology.