Welcome to the Music Sensors & Emotion website. We are a research group based in the Sonic Art Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast.

The Music, Sensors and Emotion (MuSE) research group is a multidisciplinary team focused on both qualitatively and quantitatively measuring the relationship between music and emotion and using this information to inform musical composition and performance. Ongoing areas  of research include:

• Integral music control: Using both gestural and emotional interactions to control digital musical instruments.

• The use of physiological and kinematic ambulatory monitoring to measure gesture and emotion during performance.

• Physiological monitoring of audiences during performance

• Contagion of emotion and physiological signals between performer and audience

This website is currently under development, but for the moment you can visit our Performances, Installations or Research Projects.