Viva Contemporary! Mobile Music Laboratory

Interactive Artwork at ACM MM 2022, Lisbon
Emily Graber, Charles Picasso, Elaine Chew

The Mobile Music Lab is an interactive music system for controlling the temporal expression of Contemporary Classical Music and recording time-aligned physiological data outside of traditional psychology labs. This system is used to understand how embodiment impacts listener experience and preference.

For more information see: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3503161.3549980

Using the Conductor Interface

Start tapping/pushing into the Roli interface. If your gesture has been registered, the laptop will flash and the synth “piano” keys will move.

When you tap and push into the interface, the music will stay synchronized with your motion. This will lead to prediction and entrainment which may help shape perception and reception of challenging music!

Try the conductor interface for a canonical example or contemporary classical music examples!

(Optional) Put on an EEG headset or heart rate monitor