<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/50880180?h=4d772ca281" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> ## Clasp Together: Composing for Mind and Machine - J. HARRY WHALLEY[1]Reid School of Music, ECA, University of Edinburgh - PANAGIOTIS MAVROSCentre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, The Bartlett, University College London - PETE FURNISS Reid School of Music, ECA, University of Edinburgh Cite the paper: Whalley, J.H., Mavros, P. and Furniss, P., 2014. Clasp together: composing for mind and machine. _Empirical Musicology Review_, _9_(3-4), pp.263-276. ABSTRACT: This paper will explore questions of agency, control and interaction and the embodied nature of musical performance in relation to the use of human-computer interaction (HCI), through the experimental work Clasp Together (beta)[2] for small ensemble and live electronics by J. Harry Whalley. This practice-led research is situated at the intersection of music neurotechnology for sound synthesis and brain-computer interfaces (BCI), and explores the use of neural patternsfrom Electroencephalography (EEG) as a control instrument. The composition departed from the traditional composer/performer paradigm by includingboth non-instrumental physical gestures and cognitive or emotive instructions integrated into the score. Submitted 2014 June 8; accepted 2014 November 28. KEYWORDS: BCI, EEG, Cognition, Composition,Live electronics, Performance https://emusicology.org/index.php/EMR/article/view/4348/3896 ![[Clasp Together Whalley 2014.pdf]]