The following projects are ongoing in Arts and Creativity Lab.
The Network Music Ensemble
In the good old days of live musical performance, sound was tightly coupled to musical gesture. Striking a drum, blowing through a pipe, bowing a string - all created sound at the same time and the same place as the gesture (the strike, blow, or bow). New approaches to composition and music making, in conspiracy with new computational and communications technologies, have broken the bond that keeps a gesture and its sonic implications together in time and in space. This presents new challenges to ensemble players who can no longer depend on sound for communicating with their fellow players. The Networked Music Project explores communication strategies for ensemble musicians (scoring strategies, visualizations, haptics, and connected instruments) in support of new forms of ensemble music making.
Listening Strategies for New Media
Now that all sound is available on the palette of material for making music, our previous understanding of how the ears, brain, and mind make musical sense of sound based on patterns of notes is woefully inadequate. Does expectation (and its violation) still play an important role in musical experience? In the Listening Strategies project, we are using EEG patterns (specifically mismatched negativity, or MMN) to investigate how the blooming, buzzing confusion of sonic environments might be organized in potentially musical ways.
Sound Modeling
Interactive Sound Modeling is not your grandmother’s sound design. Instead of editing, processing, and otherwise manipulating a fixed sound until it is just right, one must design a whole class of sounds, and behaviors over time along with interaction patterns. So how?
Graduate student project
Some graduate students have their own project. Details in here
