BCMI-MIdAS

New journal paper and conference presentation

2017-05-22T06:58:00.001-07:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team are pleased to announce a new journal article in this issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, titled Affective Calibration of Musical Feature Sets in an Emotionally Intelligent Music Composition System.

The team also has a forthcoming conference paper, titled Affective Brain Computer Music Interfacing: A Case Study Of Use By An Individual With Huntington’s Disease to be presented at the 7th Graz BCI conference, Austria, later this year. Citations for both are available in the research page of the group website.

New journal article in Computers In Entertainment, feature in The Guardian

2017-01-27T05:45:00.003-08:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team are pleased to announce another new journal article, this time in ACM's Computers In Entertainment. You don't need access to the ACM digital library as this (along with a couple of others from the special issues on musical metacreation) have been published live on the CiE website (free to access).

As this is a 'green access' publication we are also able to offer a downloadable pdf file if you would like to check it like that instead of using a web browser.

Also, the Reading group were recently featured demonstrating the new technology to rapper and producer Tinie Tempah, pictured, for a feature in The Guardian. See all the details here.

New journal article in Neural Engineering

2016-07-12T06:20:00.004-07:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team have just published a new article in the Journal of Neural Engineering (Impact factor 3.493), titled "Affective Brain-Computer Music Interfacing".

The full article can be viewed online at

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/13/4/046022

New journal article in Brain and Cognition (Elsevier)

2015-11-04T04:21:00.002-08:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team are pleased to announce a new journal publication in Brain and Cognition, titled "Music-induced emotions can be predicted from a combination of brain activity and acoustic features"

The article can be viewed via science direct
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262615300142

from 3rd November 2015.

Highlights

•: A combination of acoustic and neurophysiological features are used to attempt to predict music-induced emotion.
•: Significant prediction results are achieved.
•: These results are significantly better when a combination of features is used than either feature alone.
•: Features selected include alpha and beta band powers and mel-cepstral coefficients.

New journal article in Transactions on Applied Perception, forthcoming conference presentations

2015-09-23T05:09:00.002-07:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team are pleased to announce a recent journal article publication in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, with more journal article announcements to follow shortly. Also please see our research publications page for details of a number of exciting conference papers which the team are delivering this month, including venues as far afield as China!

The article can be accessed here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2749466

Thank you for visiting.

Forthcoming conference papers and Gadgetshow appearance

2015-04-30T05:49:00.002-07:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team, fresh from hosting the BioMusic Symposium: Interfacing Brain, Music, and Emotions as part of the 10th Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, in Plymouth, Devon, UK on 27 February 2015, have a number of forthcoming conference papers presenting progress from the project, which can be viewed on the research pages now.

Duncan Williams and Joel Eaton also presented a working demo of some of the music generation systems used in the MIdAS project for the first episode of the latest series of The Gadgetshow, which aired on Channel 5 in the UK on March 15th 2015. A clip from the show can be seen here.

Symposium: Interfacing Brain, Music, and Emotions

2015-02-25T07:13:00.004-08:00

This symposium is aimed at discussing the state of the art in field of brain-computer music interfacing (BCMI). Scientists from the EPSRC-funded project ‘Brain-Computer Music Interface for Monitoring and Inducing Affective States’ join musicians and invited experts to review methods for analysis and monitoring of bioinformation associated with emotions, and techniques for generating music with a BCMI system aimed at inducing specific emotions on listeners.

The symposium forms part of the programme of the prestigious Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, now in its 10th year:

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival - 2015 from PACMF-2015 on Vimeo.

The full symposium program is available to view here. Tickets for the symposium are free but must be booked in advance.

Note: The symposium is now fully booked. No further tickets are available.

New journal article - Automated identification of neural correlates of continuous variables (Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier)

2015-01-08T06:23:00.000-08:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team present a new paper in the current contents of Journal of Neuroscience Methods (Elsevier), discussing the development of a new method for identifying EEG correlates of continuous independent variables which outperforms canonical correlation analysis and common spatial patterns.

The full paper can be viewed online first as of December 26th 2014 here.

Demonstration files accompanying the paper, including code and examples, can be downloaded under a GNU general public license from first author Ian Daly's personal website, here.

New journal article - Investigating music tempo as a feedback mechanism for closed-loop BCI control (Brain Computer Interfaces, Taylor & Francis)

2014-12-10T05:35:00.004-08:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team present a new paper in the current contents of Brain Computer Interfaces (Taylor & Francis), discussing the use of tempo as a feedback mechanism for closed-loop BCI control.

The full paper can be viewed online first as of November 17th 2014 here.

New journal article - Investigating Affect in Algorithmic Composition Systems (Psychology of Music, SAGE)

2014-08-26T03:58:00.002-07:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team present a new paper in the current contents of Psychology of Music (SAGE), discussing the use of affectively-driven algorithmic composition systems for induction and communication of emotions via music.

The full paper can be viewed by SAGE subscribers as of August 15th in the Online First section here.

New journal article – Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: An EEG study (Neuroscience Letters, Elsevier)

2014-05-28T02:43:00.003-07:00

The BCMI-MIdAS team present a new paper in the current volume of Neuroscience Letters (Elsevier), revealing neural correlates of music-induced emotions.

The full paper can be viewed via Science Direct now.

Groundbreaking Music Neurotechnology project featured on BBC News Channel and BBC World News

2014-02-11T03:32:00.001-08:00

Prof Eduardo Miranda and ICCMR engineer Joel Eaton demonstrate the Brain-Computer Music Interfacing system behind the composition "Activating Memory" for string quartet and BCMI quartet. Read more on the BBC webpages here

Project meeting, update, and first experiments

2013-12-10T03:33:00.000-08:00

Below are some photos from the recent joint project meeting, where experimental work using synchronised fMRI and EEG brain scanning was used to evaluate music at the Reading laboratory. The photos show Plymouth research fellow, Dr Alexis Kirke, under the watchful eye of Dr Etienne Roesch and Dr Ian Daly from the Reading team:

- Dr Roesch and Dr Daly preparing the 64 channel EEG system

- Dr Kirke entering the scanner

- experiment in progress as participant evaluates music excerpts inside the fMRI scanner

Watch this space for more updates and results soon!

Prof Eduardo Miranda will deliver a key note at Medicine Unboxed 2013: Voice

2013-08-05T05:55:00.000-07:00

Medicine Unboxed 2013: VOICE is a mosaic of the subjective, individually complex and disparate voices that resonate within medicine. Full details are online at http://www.medicineunboxed.com/2013-voice/

Research update: Conferences, performances, and in the press

2013-07-04T09:07:00.000-07:00

The research section of the BCMI-MIdAS webpages have now been updated to reflect several new conference papers from the project, including presentations in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and the UK.

Recent performances of new work featuring some of the technology and ideas driving part of the BCMI-MIdAS project:
Eduardo Miranda's Symphony of Minds Listening:

Alexis Kirke's Many Worlds:

both of which have been featured extensively by the press, including BBC, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, Wired [1],[2], and more [see links section of this website for full details].

The project is moving ahead swiftly with new code and experiments in preparation. Don't forget to add our RSS feed if you would like to be kept informed of the latest developments here as they happen.

Welcome to new project members

2013-07-04T07:54:00.000-07:00

A warm welcome to three new project members:

Dr Ian Daly joins us at the University of Reading, from the TU Graz, Austria.

Mr James Weaver has begun his PhD with the University of Reading as part of the project.

Mr Asad Malik (fresh from graduating MRes in Computer Music at the ICCMR in Plymouth) also joins the Reading group.

See people pages of the project website for links to further details on all members of the project

BCMI-MIdAS in Wired.co.uk!

2012-12-21T07:51:00.003-08:00

BCMI-MIdAS featured in Wired.co.uk! Prof. Miranda was interviewed, and described some of the aims of our project. I believe the picture accompanying the article was taken with collaborators from a different projects though,.. involving MR Imaging facilities in NY! Prof. Miranda is on the left handside of the picture.

Related links:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/23/music-writing-computer
http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/event.htm

Welcome to the BCMI-MIdAS project

2012-09-11T00:58:00.001-07:00

This site has been set up to document the work undertaken on the Brain Computer Music Interface for Monitoring and Inducing Affective States project, a collaboration between the Brain Embodiments Lab at the University of Reading, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at the University of Plymouth.

News updates will be posted here as this exciting project gets underway.

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