Recent advances in new technologies offer a large range of innovative instruments for designing and processing sounds. This paper reports on the results of a project that took place during the eNTERFACE06 summer workshop in Dubrovnik, Croatia. During four weeks, researchers from the fields of brain-computer interfaces and sound synthesis worked together to explore multiple ways of mapping analysed physiological signals to sound and image synthesis parameters in order to build biologically-driven musical instruments. A reusable flexible framework for bio-musical applications has been developed and validated using three experimental prototypes, from whence emerged some worthwhile perspectives on future research.

Index Terms: EEG, EMG, brain-computer interfaces, digital musical instruments, mapping

@inproceedings{brouse06_einterface,
  title     = {{An instrument of sound and visual creation driven by biological signals}},
  author    = {Andrew Brouse and Jean-Julien Filatriau and Kosta Gaitanis and Rémy Lehembre and Benoît Macq and Eduardo Miranda and Alexandre Zénon},
  year      = {2006},
  booktitle = {{Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eINTERFACE 2006)}},
  pages     = {59--68},
}