New journal article – Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: An EEG study (Neuroscience Letters, Elsevier)

The BCMI-MIdAS team present a new paper in the current volume of Neuroscience Letters (Elsevier), revealing neural correlates of music-induced emotions.

The full paper can be viewed via Science Direct now.

Groundbreaking Music Neurotechnology project featured on BBC News Channel and BBC World News

Prof Eduardo Miranda and ICCMR engineer Joel Eaton demonstrate the Brain-Computer Music Interfacing system behind the composition "Activating Memory" for string quartet and BCMI quartet. Read more on the BBC webpages here

Project meeting, update, and first experiments

Below are some photos from the recent joint project meeting, where experimental work using synchronised fMRI and EEG brain scanning was used to evaluate music at the Reading laboratory. The photos show Plymouth research fellow, Dr Alexis Kirke, under the watchful eye of Dr Etienne Roesch and Dr Ian Daly from the Reading team:

- Dr Roesch and Dr Daly preparing the 64 channel EEG system

- Dr Kirke entering the scanner

- experiment in progress as participant evaluates music excerpts inside the fMRI scanner

Watch this space for more updates and results soon!

Prof Eduardo Miranda will deliver a key note at Medicine Unboxed 2013: Voice

Medicine Unboxed 2013: VOICE is a mosaic of the subjective, individually complex and disparate voices that resonate within medicine. Full details are online at http://www.medicineunboxed.com/2013-voice/

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