Thoughtware.TV introduces you to Brainloop. A platform which allows you to interact with Satellite Technology Software with your mind.
With Brainloop a tetraplegic person can perform in a virtual world merely by imagining specific motor commands such as moving the left-hand, the right-hand, or the feet. The subject even elects and manipulates sounds in real time.
This mentally conducted performance is achieved via a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which provides the performer with a non-muscular communication and control channel for conveying messages and commands to the external world.
Motor imagery may be seen as the mental rehearsal of a motor act without any overt motor output. The difference between performance and imagery is that in the latter case, execution is blocked at the corticospinal level. Through motor imagery, performer Markus Rapp investigates urban areas and landscapes in Google Earth and selects locations he will further use as a "virtual stage" for the sound performance. During this section, the subject elects and manipulates sounds in real time while composer Brane Zorman re-locates them (5.1 surround) into the VisionSpace (physical space).
The virtual reality environment is projected in stereo allowing the audience to perceive the events in 3D.
Author: Davide Grassi (SLO -I)
BCI performer: Markus Rapp (A)
Programmer: Suncica Hermansson (HR)
Composer: Brane Zorman (SLO)
BCI supervisor: Reinhold Scherer
Coordinator: Seppo Gruendler
Executive producer: Marcela Okretič
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