Music played by EEG featured in DXARTS Spring Concert

UW Music School Director Richard Karpen plays an electromagnetic piano
called a Disklavier. Though he is shown performing on the keys, some
of the music he'll play for the April 6 DXARTS Spring Concert will be
performed hands-free, guided only by his brain waves, via the EEG.
The Disklavier is an electromagnetic piano that — like the UW-created
encephalophone recently reported on by the Seattle Times — is played
by brain waves alone, with the performer hooked up to an
electroencephalogram (EEG).
UW audiences will get a look at, and listen to, this creative new
technology in "Music of Today: The DXARTS Spring Concert," at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, April 6, in Meany Hall.
This evening of all-digital music will include Richard Karpen,
professor and director of the School of Music, performing a piece on
the Disklavier called "Human Subject" hands-free, via an EEG.
For the second piece in the program Karpen will be joined by School of
Music professor emeritus Stuart Dempster and
Juan Pampin, UW associate professor of music and director of the
Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media — called DXARTS for
short. This piece, called "Cisternization." is an improvisation for
piano, trombone and live electronics using the virtual acoustics of
the Dan Harpole Cistern at
Fort Worden State Park.
Closing the program is "Hemispheres" by Pampin, a piece for EEG and 3D
sound projection, with Stuart Dempster as performer.
Music of Today is a concert series co-sponsored by DXARTS and the
School of Music featuring modern classics and new works by faculty and
guest composers.
Tickets are $10-$15, available through
ArtsUW.
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For more information about music played via EEG, contact Pampin at
206-616-6258 or pampin@uw.edu.