Embodied Knowledge of Music — Enhancing Musical Emotion through Biofeedback

The “moving” experience of music — including chills — is closely tied to the listener’s physiological and bodily responses. This international joint project builds a new framework for experience design that measures physiological signals such as heart rate, electrodermal activity, and respiration in real time, and feeds the resulting changes back into musical performance and composition.

From the perspectives of active inference and predictive coding, we model the cycle of expectation, prediction error, and bodily response that underlies the experience of being “moved,” and contribute to designing bidirectional interactions between robot/AI performers and listeners through their bodily responses.