For my senior capstone project in Music Technology this spring I used an Emotiv Insight with BCI-OSC running into MaxMSP exclusively to control all sounds with my own software instrument designs. Performance metrics controlled harmonic base via velocity sensitive loop triggers, harmonic tempo, and multiple effect parameters. Mental commands and facial gestures controlled both a 4 voice polyphonic synthesizer and a wavetable synthesizer. I scored the piece and wrote a few etudes and accompanied Max patches for others to learn the individual parts! This piece is titled “Telekinetic Daydream” and the only use of anything other than the Insight is hands to control volume.
