This won't play for me at the moment, but according to the image
caption, I do not think the sensors on the conductor or the musicians
will be able to separate the perfromace aspect from the musical aspect
- they are busy working, not just listening! Audience sensors will have
more to do with the music than the players...

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
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On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Don Tait wrote:

> Or "the body electrical"?
> As to the Whitman quote, given its age, shouldn't it be ..."the body
> acoustic?"
>
> Steve Smolian
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Tait" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:44 PM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: Fw: NPR story on music response
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>
>> I heard this NPR story on the radio. Wiring musicians up to measure
>> their
>> physical response to music -- yes, it is an old idea indeed. One of
>> the books
>> about Herbert von Karajan (I can't remember which one) describes how
>> he had
>> himself wired and then conducted a rehearsal or whatever with his
>> blood pressure,
>> temperature, et cetera being measured and recorded. That may have
>> been twenty
>> or twenty-five years ago, however. History much too ancient for the
>> producers
>> of this story to have known about.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Hey Walt Whitman suggested this more than a century ago with " I
>> SING THE
>> BODY ELECTRIC"
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Heller"
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>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>; "mitchell heller" <[log in to unmask]>;
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>> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:21 PM
>> Subject: NPR story on music response
>>
>>
>>> fyi
>>>
>>>
>>>> A music researcher Dan Levitin will be attaching physiological
>>>> sensors to
>>>> a conductor, orchestra members, and audience members during a
>>>> concert
>>>> performance. Hear the story on npr's archive. If this link doesn't
>>>> work
>>>> directly, search for Levitin in the past week on NPR's archives.
>>>> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5331994
>>>> The page you come up with also shows you links to other
>>>> music-related
>>>> stories.
>>>