Outputs (6)

PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, June). PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes. Paper presented at Forum Alpinum 2024, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

This research delves into the intricate relationship between mountain auditory environments and the mountaineering experience, shedding light on the influence of individual sounds and overall soundscapes. While existing studies acknowledge the positi... Read More about PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes.

The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, April). The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis. Presented at 2024 AES 6th International Conference on Audio for Games, Tokyo, Japan

Foley is a sound production technique where organicity and authenticity in sound creation are key to fostering creativity. Audio synthesis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Interaction Design (IXD) have been explored by the community to investigate t... Read More about The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis.

An End-to-End Musical Instrument System That Translates Electromyogram Biosignals to Synthesized Sound (2024)
Journal Article
Tanaka, A., Visi, F., Di Donato, B., Klang, M., & Zbyszyński, M. (2024). An End-to-End Musical Instrument System That Translates Electromyogram Biosignals to Synthesized Sound. Computer Music Journal, 47(1), 64-84. https://doi.org/10.1162/comj_a_00672

This article presents a custom system combining hardware and sortware that sense physiological signals of the performer's body resulting from muscle contraction and translates them to computer-synthesized sound. Our goal was to build upon the history... Read More about An End-to-End Musical Instrument System That Translates Electromyogram Biosignals to Synthesized Sound.

Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vear, C., Poltronieri, F., Di Donato, B., Zhang, Y., Benerradi, J., Hutchinson, S., Turowski, P., Shell, J., & Malekmohamadi, H. (2024, April). Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making. Presented at Evostar 2024: The Leading European Event on Bio‑Inspired Computation, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

In this paper, we present our findings of the design, development and deployment of a proof-of-concept dataset that captures some of the physiological, musicological, and psychological aspects of embodied musicking. After outlining the conceptual ele... Read More about Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making.

Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2023, August). Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. Presented at AM '23: Audio Mostly 2023, Edinburgh

Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its annual gatherings bring together thinkers and doers from academia and indus... Read More about Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference.

An exploration of diversity in Embodied Music Interaction (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B. (2023, May). An exploration of diversity in Embodied Music Interaction. Presented at CHIME: Music Interaction and Physical Disability, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

This is an exploration of diversity in Embodied Music Interaction through three case studies entitled (i) Accessible interactive digital signage for the visually impaired, (ii) Human-Sound Interaction and (iii) BSL in Embodied Music Interaction (EMI)... Read More about An exploration of diversity in Embodied Music Interaction.