Biofeedback Suite as an Instrument: Emotion Mappings for Musical Practice

Manubrio: Investigating Musical Instrument Embodiment Through a Feedback-Based New Interface for Musical Expression

Manubrio explores how continuous bodily engagement and feedback-based sound generation can support the incorporation of a digital interface into the performer’s bodily awareness and reveals the sensitivity and fragility of such interactions.

Humanoid Musical Robots as Experimental Interfaces for Music-Evoked Emotion

It is shown that humanoid robots are well-suited as they enable parametric control of performance variables, reproducibility across trials, and the decoupling and recombination of auditory, visual, and interactive components.

Embodied algorithms in vocal performance: Kinesthesis 2.0 and the transformation of player–instrument–algorithm assemblages

This article examines Kinesthesis 2.0, an interactive system that transforms gesture and facial expression into real-time vocal processing through algorithmic integration. Drawing on over two decades of compositional practice for theatre, dance and film, we analyse how machine learning, gesture recognition and audio...

Metaphors for Communicating Musical Expression: Comparing LLMs to Humans Interpreting Metaphors in Piano Performance

From Control to Co-Agency: Reframing Instrumentality through Sonic Traces in Augmented Musical Practice

By re-considering what counts as signal in augmented instruments that use machine-learning, this work contributes to NIME discussions on affordances, agency, and relational instrument design, fore-grounding co-agency grounded in responsiveness and emergent behaviour.

The Soundtrack as an Emotional Operating System: How Game Music Shapes Player Feeling, Attention, and Choice

Game music does far more than fill silence; it shapes how players feel, pay attention, and make choices. This paper examines game music as an emotional operating system that guides bodily arousal, cognitive focus, and narrative interpretation during play. Drawing on the valence–arousal model of emotion, studies on horr...