EyeMusic: Making Music with the Eyes

Though musical performers routinely use eye movements to communicate with each other during musical performances, very few performers or composers have utilized eye tracking devices as a means of influencing musical compositions and performances. EyeMusic is a system that uses eye movements as an input to electronic music compositions. The eye movements can control the music, or the music can respond to the eyes moving around a visual scene. EyeMusic is implemented so that any composer using established composition software can incorporate prerecorded eye movement data into their musical compositions. KEYWORDS Electronic music composition, eye movements, eye tracking, human-computer interaction, Max/MSP.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NIME
• Authors: Anthony J. Hornof, Linda Sato
• Keywords: Electronic Music Composition, Eye Movements, Eye Tracking, NIME 2004