Applications that link music and neuroscience - RTVE

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Enobio helmet developer. MHD / Mariana Murdocco

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One of the members of the Chinese International Channel VB

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BlowUp VB game

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One of the processes carried out in the MHD. MHD / Mariana Murdocco

VICKY BOLAÑOS knowledge

hacker has been for 24 hours in the service of neuroscience at the conference Barcelona Music Hack Day has received Sonar + D , the technology area of ??the festival Sonar music.

Music Technology Group of the Pompeu Fabra University, with the support of various institutions and companies, organized for the third consecutive year in which competition 100 developers, designers and Artists have to create or develop software , mobile applications, hardware or web development, among others.

Project Supported KiiCS (Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science, in Castilian Incubation Knowledge in Innovation and Building Science), this edition was neuroscience thread .

Hackers from around the world had to create music link, signals brain, brain-computer interfaces and other physiological sensors. This tool had up to 25 technologies, such as a helmet with sensors (called Enobio, Starlab) and APIs in order to get a more or less finished.

Although we already know the winning projects, RTVE .’s could see up close some of the proposals that emerged 50 and talk to their creators, who worked on the environment Sonar & D

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‘Play your Mood’ (which roughly translates as ‘Sound your mood’), is a project that the Dutch engineer resident in Spain Oscar ter Hofstede conducted with the student at the University Pompeu Fabra, Marcel Farrés.

is an application which measures the mood of a person and makes sound songs related to it . Thanks to sensors and Enobio helmet, Hofstede measure signals from brain and heart. With the resulting information is to draw the mood (angry, happy, excited …) and you can see in the display by a display shaped roulette created in the Processing environment.

This application connects to a online API that plays music on the computer. Hofstede explained that ‘Play your Mood’ could be used for therapeutic purposes in music therapy, for example.

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A group of Israeli researchers showed Synchopathy, a set of small drums played by robots . The rhythm of sound is marked by signs brain, heart or both . As explained by one of its creators, Tamar Regev, can be used to check whether people can synchronize their vital signs when they hear music at the same time.

Sensors measure physiological signs of the person and the electrical activity of cerebral cortex, which goes to a server after a process becomes sounds played by drums or also for external MIDI synthesizer.

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BlowUp name, students from the University of Habsburg, Wagner Johannes, Tobias Baur and Florian Lingenfelser created a video game aesthetics of the body controlled 80-90 .

Students used sensors and table eHealth for Arduino to measure breathing rate, heart rate and skin conductance User . The signals pass through a server and are transformed into movements of a character in a video game. For example, exhalation doll makes the jump and heart rate makes the character move faster or slower.

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Another experiment emerged from the Barcelona Music Hack Day was Channel Love a interactive system that increases and transfers the emotional feelings of the people in the form of lights, colors and sounds, collective work of Chinese International CC .

is indicated to be used by one couple who is endowed with some eye LED displays, helmets and biosensors . As could be seen in the presentation of the project, users have to passionately kissing or touching. Their emotional states are decoded and can be seen in screens that light up, flashing and changing colors are , while emit different sounds.

In this same group, the student at the University Pompeu Fabra Eva Domenech has presented at Sonar + D Funambulista , a dynamic interactive installation in which the user has to walk by a bar.

According progresses the user sees is moved by a Google Earth map projected on the floor. If it falls, the map does a quick zoom and ends with a message or representation of legal terms and conditions. The goal is a daily challenge in Western society , and display the amount of commercial and political intrusions experience daily.