The Impossibility of Control: Real-time Negotiations with the Heart

We present a practice-based research project, which examines temporal relationships between physiological processes with human movement and mediated environments. Ongoing research will provide a foundation for the creation of performances in which real-time heart rate data from contemporary dancers is used to generate click tracks for live musicians. The complex constructions of time in this project necessitate novel visualization strategies throughout the research, development, creation, and production process, including: time domain display of data with rich and facile interaction using bokeh; visualization of biometric data as a form of biofeedback; and unique representations of time in music notation.

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John MacCallum

Teoma Naccarato

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 184-191

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[0001]CNMAT

Department of Music

University of California, Berkeley, USA

[0002]Naccarato Dance

Montreal, QC

Canada

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.19

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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D Rosenboom 1997 Extended Musical Interface with the Human Nervous System: Assessment and Prospectus International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology San Francisco Leonardo Monograph Series
C Salter 2010 Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance MIT Press

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[1] M AlGhatrifJ Lindsay 2012 A Brief Review: History to Understand Fundamentals of Electro-cardiography Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives 2 1 1 5

[2] B Arslan 2005 From Biological Signals to Music 2nd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces Genoa Italy 17–18 November

[3] E Kaniusas 2012 Biomedical Signals and Sensors I: Linking Physiological Phenomena and Biosignals Springer

[4] M Ortiz 2011 Biosignal-Driven Art: Beyond Biofeedback Ideas Sonicas / Sonic Ideas 3 2 43 52

[5] D Robertson 2012 Primer on the Autonomic Nervous System 3 London: Elsevier

[6] D Rosenboom 1997 Extended Musical Interface with the Human Nervous System: Assessment and Prospectus International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology San Francisco Leonardo Monograph Series

[7] C Salter 2010 Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance MIT Press

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