Date — 11 April 2026
Venue — NIME 2026, Canberra
City — AU
Gesture / EEG Duet (solo)
A solo performance exploring the dialogue between conscious gesture and involuntary neural activity through EEG-driven sound synthesis.
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Programme
Presented as part of the NIME 2026 main programme following the accompanying research paper. The work combined gesture tracking, EEG, and live electronics into a forty-minute performance.
§ 02
Context
Developed during the second year of doctoral research as an exploration of embodied interaction and performer-system negotiation.
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Collaborators
Solo performance. Technical support by the NIME production team.
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Instrumentation
Muse 2 EEG headset, MediaPipe hand tracking, Max/MSP, Ableton Live, custom granular synthesis engine, quadraphonic speaker setup.
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Reflection
"The performance revealed moments where unintended neural fluctuations became musically meaningful, blurring the distinction between deliberate and unconscious expression."
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