Using physiological signals for sound creation

Recent advances in new technologies offer a large range of innovative instruments to design and process sounds. Willing to explore new ways for music creation, specialists from the fields of brain-computer interfaces and sound synthesis worked together during the eNTERFACE05 workshop (Mons, Belgium). The aim of their work was to design an architecture of real-time sound synthesis driven by physiological signals. The following description links natural human signals to sound synthesis algorithms, thus offering rarely used pathways for music exploration. This architecture was tested during a ”bio-concert” given at the end of the workshop where two musicians were using their EEG and EMG to perform a musical creation.