BCI-Controlled AI Music Improvisation in Max/MSP

sammaalysammaaly Taiwan
in Research

Hello all,

Greeting! I am a composer from Taiwan.

I would like to share my recent project that I have been working since 2025. This project focuses on the interaction between AI music improvisation (based on Somax2 of Max/MSP) and EEG (using Ultracortex). Here is the short demo of my work:

In this experiment, EEG signals are captured through the headset and used to estimate different mental and affective states, including arousal/valence and concentration. The EEG data are first sonified in Max/MSP, transforming brain activity into sound. These resulting sounds then interact with the parameters of Somax2 in real time, creating a continuous musical dialogue between brain activity, sound, and machine improvisation.

I have been experimenting with an Affective State widget for the OpenBCI GUI (v6.0.0-beta.1) and would really appreciate some feedback from the community! As I am not from coding background, so I created Arousal/Valence detection widget with help of Claude and ChatGPT to see if this is possible to work out...I have attached the photo of the widget in this post! [] (https://openbci.com/forum/uploads/editor/1r/hx9zyd3h6cbq.png "")

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