Research update: Conferences, performances, and in the press

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

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!

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

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.

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