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Retroaction Between Music
and Physiology: An Approach
from the Point of View of Emotions
Pierre-Henri Vulliard, Joseph Larralde
and Myriam Desainte-Catherine
Abstract
It is a well-known fact that listening to music produces particular physiological
reactions for the auditor, and the study of these relationships remains a wide
unexplored
field of study. When one starts analyzing physiological signals
measured on a person listening to music, one has to
ne models to
know what information could be observed with these signals. Conversely, when
one starts trying to generate some music from physiological data, in fact, it is an
attempt to create the inverse relationship of the one happening naturally, and in
order to do that, one also has to de
firstly de
ne models enabling the control of all the
parameters of a generative music system from the few physiological information
available, and in a coherent way. The notion of emotion, aside from looking
particularly appropriate in the context, reveals itself to be a central concept
allowing the articulation between musical and physiological models. We suggest
in this article an experimental real-time system aiming at studying the
interactions and retroactions between music and physiology, based on the
paradigm of emotions.
