Brain Music Lab

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The Brain Music Lab pursues research and develops creative practices to promote health and well-being by combining new music technologies with EEG (brainwave data) and other physiological measurement techniques. An example of their work is Vessels, an ongoing performance project led by lab director Grace Leslie, which draws on several years of engineering and music-based meditation practices, employingbrain waves as a means of biofeedback training. In her performances, Leslie's brain waves are sonified by means of an algorithm that imprints their spectrum onto a bank of recorded samples of flute and singing. The result is a transforming architecture of sound driven by her physiology.

PhD Student Recruiting

The Brain Music Lab seeks two PhD students to start in Fall 2027. Applications are due December 1, 2026.

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Brain Music Lab News

Brain Music Lab Projects

Cybernetic Human Enhancement
Embracing Musical Space
HyperDance
Love Song: Bounding Mother-Baby Hearts through Heartbeat Sonification
Low-Level Audio Feature Correlates to Physiological Arousal
Music Sharing
Music-Superheroes: The Dream Team for Emotional Regulation
Resonance: An Immersive Sound Installation
Spatial Sonification & Visualization of Genetic Data

Brain Music Lab Director

Brain Music Lab Associated Researchers

Brain Music Lab Publications

Thiago Rossi Roque,Ruojia Sun,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Grace Leslie. “HyperDance: Real-Time Vibrotactile Stimulation Feedback of Inter-Brain Connectivity in Partner Dance”. In:TEI '26:Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Chicago, IL, March 8-11, 2026).

T. R. Roque,R. Sun,E. Y. -L. Do,D. L. Maldonado ԻG. Leslie. 2025. "". In:IEEE Sensors Journal. (August 22, 2025)

Thiago Rossi Roque,Ruojia Sun, Ellen Do, Daniel Llamas Maldonado ԻGrace Leslie. 2025. “”. In:TechRxiv. (August 7, 2025)

Daniel Ethridge, Luis X. de Pablo, Grace Leslie. 2024."." In:AM '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures.(Milan, Italy, September 18, 2024).

Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty,Netta Ofer,Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,Peter Gyory,Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, ԻEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings ofAudio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023).

Ruojia Sun,Althea Vail Wallop,Grace Leslie, ԻEllen Yi-Luen Do.“” 2023. In: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). (July 12, 2023).

Yiren Ren,Sophia K. Mehdizadeh, Grace Leslie, and Thackery I. Brown. 2024. "". In: Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 24(5). (July 2, 2024)

Sophia K. MehdizadehԻGrace Leslie. 2023. "". In:Music Perception, 40(5). (June 1, 2023).