about
Bioinformatic Feedback is a Max/MSP based software system that makes use of embedded Java classes to analyze performer-generated bioinformatic data towards the subsequent selection, rendering and presentation of traditionally notated pre-composed musical cells as a fully-featured musical score. By tracking changes in bio-data from a performer during performance, and by subsequently presenting those changes in real-time as traditionally notated musical score data, a bioinformatic feedback loop of sorts is created, where the performer's physiological state at a given moment in the performance is directly affected by previous instances of their state as represented in musical form.

details
The core of the system lies in a set of Java classes, modified from the jChing compositional system, embedded within a Max/MSP framework for easy data gathering and presentation. Data is gathered from a performer using a variety of bioinformatic sensors (GSR, EKG, EEG) and compared to the activity of pre-composed musical cells entered into the system using either MusicXML or a modified SCORE data format. Scores are generated in either MusicXML or Lilypond data format and presented for real-time presentation as postscript or .pdf formatted files.

performances

12.09.2005

Bloodscrape: duet with cellist Colin Oldham CCRMA Human Controller Interaction (HCI) Presentation * Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

* = World Premiere