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Speakers:
Tom Fritz, Julius Popp

Disciplines:

cognitive science, music, interface, sensors, art

Organisation:
 Number of participants is limited to 20. The practical tasks, such as development of installations will be done in groups of approx. 4.

Course content:
Humans are equipped with a capability for musical interaction in communication (e.g. the automatic use of prosody in speech). We aim at creating interfaces that can mobilize these capabilities and put them to use to exert musical control. 

The procedure to create the interactive interfaces requires the setup of sensors, reading out the sensors, and mapping them onto musical effects. One project we intend to realize is the establishment of an interactive musical ping pong game with Kinect sensors.

Objectives:
1. acquiring knowledge about emotional motor control
2. creating amazing musical compositions

CV:

Tom Fritz
is a scientist&artist at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Leipzig, and at the Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music in Gent. He studied biology and art, and has a PhD in Cognitive Science. He is interrested in how the dynamics of  thought and action can be tapped to inspire art.
http://www.cbs.mpg.de/staff/fritz-2064

Julius Popp
is an artist based in Leipzig. His work often uses technology, resulting in interdisciplinary ventures which reach across the boundaries of art and science. An example of Popp’s work is Bitfall (2005): a machine which displays words selected from the internet via drops of falling water in precise configuration, each word visible only for a second. Popp studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and he won the Robot Choice Award in 2003.