Archive for the ‘News’ category

EMG High-Striker

September 6th, 2011

The MuSE team was back at the Science Gallery tent in Electric Picnic this year with the new 100% hammer free High Striker. We used electromyography to extract muscular tension, and used that to light the bulbs and ring the bell of our high-striker. For now just a snapshot of one of our top contestants.. soon a blog post with more details.

EMG High Striker - ElectricPicnic2011

Thanks to everyone that participated, it was great fun.

Video from BioRhythms at EyeBeam

July 7th, 2011

Check out this video from the inaguration night for the BioRhythms Exhibition at the EyeBeam Gallery, NYC

more info here

Arduino Pulse Generator for Synchronization Tests

May 22nd, 2011

A simple arduino script that generates a simultaneous TTL and audio pulse sequence for synchronization tests among different recording equipment. The scripts allows variable intervals and the addition of jitter.

Download latest version (2.0)

Please send any comments to javier@jaimovich.cl

MuSE at EyeBeam NYC

May 20th, 2011

The MuSE team will be at the the World Science Festival in NYC with Emotion in Motion, Chain of Emotion and as part of the inauguration concerts of BioRhythm at EyeBeam.

More info here: http://worldsciencefestival.com/events/biorhythm

MEDIA COVERAGE

TV COVERAGE
REUTERS – VIDEO
NY1 – VIDEO
WABC (ABC – New York, NY) – VIDEO
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PRESS
New York Times – PDF


BioSuite+UnSound in New Scientist

April 11th, 2011

BioSuite Sensors

BioSuite and UnSound get a write up in New Scientist after the SXSW premiere!

Unsound-Physiologically driven cinema

February 24th, 2011


We’ve been collaborating with Belfast’s Filmtrip to create an exciting new type of cinema experience. Check it out at SXSW or the Belfast Film Festival.
More info at www.unsound-the-film.com

Biggest Human Electrical Circuit Record Attempt

September 23rd, 2010

Biggest Human Electrical Circuit at Electric Picnic 2010

The MuSE research group from SARC in collaboration with the Science Gallery created the biggest human electrical circuit at the Electric Picnic 2010. The circuit was built by creating a human chain of 262 people connected to both ends of a circuit. The changes in the chain’s conductivity were captured by an arduino which modulated samples of electricity sounds.

Chain of Emotion

September 23rd, 2010

Chain of Emotion at Electric Picnic 2010

Chain of Emotion is an interactive sound installation premièred in the Science Gallery tent at Electric Picnic 2010. The installation is based on a previous installation: Ground Me! and uses the conductivity of the human body to generate different sounds.

Visitors are invited to make one or several connections between the chains around the tent in order to produce sounds. The sounds vary depending on the quality of the connection (e.g. surface of contact, number of people in the chain, level of relaxation of the participant)

Chain of Emotion was made by Javier Jaimovich, Niall Coghlan and Ben Knapp. Special thanks to the MuSE group at SARC and the Science Gallery in Dublin.

MuSE Ignite Talk at Electric Picnic 2010

September 23rd, 2010

SMPTE MATLAB decoder

September 21st, 2010

A simple MATLAB function to decode SMPTE LTC from an audio stream based on the smpte specification

You can download the current version (2.4)  here

The zip file comes with the m function, an example script and a smpte wav files

Please send any comments to javier@jaimovich.cl