I really must do a better job of keeping this blog up to date. Hello, nonexistent readership! Here’s the latest updates I have for MuSyC. Most exciting news first: MuSyC was selected to be presented at the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics’ biennial conference for the Art and Science symposium in Vienna, Austria at the […]

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Hello! Very exciting updates about MuSyC – we created the first functioning prototype! I took the project to the Hampshire Hackathon (HampHack), an interdisciplinary hackathon, with the hope that I’d be able to collaborate with someone to help me parse through some of the Arduino. I met Cassiel Moroney and Kyoko Sano and they were […]

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MuSyC is now officially a Mount Holyoke MakerSpace project! I also recevied a Five College Digital Humanities microgrant for the project, which is incredibly exciting. It feels good to be working on the intersection of neuroscience, art, music, performance and wearable digital technology. Now I can finally start acquiring materials to build the prototype – […]

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There are several things we need to consider and make decisions about. Here is only a small smattering of these questions: How big will the array be? Will the LEDs be worn by the musician or attached to the instrument? How will it be attached to the person or instrument? How do we code for […]

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