Biofeedback Suite as an Instrument: Emotion Mappings for Musical Practice

Manubrio: Investigating Musical Instrument Embodiment Through a Feedback-Based New Interface for Musical Expression

Manubrio explores how continuous bodily engagement and feedback-based sound generation can support the incorporation of a digital interface into the performer’s bodily awareness and reveals the sensitivity and fragility of such interactions.

Sergio Ramos Galindo · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

Humanoid Musical Robots as Experimental Interfaces for Music-Evoked Emotion

It is shown that humanoid robots are well-suited as they enable parametric control of performance variables, reproducibility across trials, and the decoupling and recombination of auditory, visual, and interactive components.

Vincent K. M. Cheung, Jia-Yeu Lin · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Embodied algorithms in vocal performance: Kinesthesis 2.0 and the transformation of player–instrument–algorithm assemblages

Kinesthesis 2.0 is examined, an interactive system that transforms gesture and facial expression into real-time vocal processing through algorithmic integration through algorithmic integration, and proposes that computational mediation becomes experientially seamless not through technical simplification but through cul...

Tilemachos Moussas, A. Georgaki · Organised Sound · 0 citations

Metaphors for Communicating Musical Expression: Comparing LLMs to Humans Interpreting Metaphors in Piano Performance

Analysis of the capability of LLMs to interpret metaphorical instructions in musical performance and their outputs to human pianists indicates that while current LLMs lack the organic nuance required for autonomous humanlike piano performance, they hold strong potential as interactive, metaphor-driven toolboxes for mus...

J. C. Hosea, Tessa Verhoef, R. Schaefer · 0 citations

From Control to Co-Agency: Reframing Instrumentality through Sonic Traces in Augmented Musical Practice

By re-considering what counts as signal in augmented instruments that use machine-learning, this work contributes to NIME discussions on affordances, agency, and relational instrument design, fore-grounding co-agency grounded in responsiveness and emergent behaviour.

M. Krapovickas, Jan C. Schacher · 0 citations

Aug 2026

The Soundtrack as an Emotional Operating System: How Game Music Shapes Player Feeling, Attention, and Choice

Game music does far more than fill silence; it shapes how players feel, pay attention, and make choices. This paper examines game music as an emotional operating system that guides bodily arousal, cognitive focus, and narrative interpretation during play. Drawing on the valence–arousal model of emotion, studies on horr...

Yu Ye · Communications in Humanities... · 0 citations