Winner of Best Documentary - BioFiction Science Art Film Festival 2019
This short documentary follows the preparation and performance of Activating Memory by the Paramusical Ensemble comprising of four severely motor-impaired patients and a string quartet at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London, on 17 July 2015.
Activating Memory is a piece for a string quartet designed by Eduardo Reck Miranda.
The parts for each instrument are generated in real-time from the electrical activity of four additional performers wearing a Brain-Computer Music Interfacing system built by Joel Eaton and the composer at Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), Plymouth University, UK.
A BCMI system consists of a brain cap furnished with electrodes, which read electrical information from the brain. This electrical information is used to control a generative music system.
In collaboration with - Dr Julian O'Kelly and Dr Sophie Duport at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disabilty, London
Produced by - Tim Grabham & Prof Eduardo Reck Miranda
Filmed, edited and directed by - Tim Grabham
Screenings -
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival - Plymouth, UK - February 2016
Imagine Science Film Festival - New York,USA - October, 2016
Goethe Science Film Festival - Indonesia - November, 2016
Copernicus Museum, Warsaw 2017
Imagine Science Paris - France - June 2017
Wolford College, South Carolina - September, 2017
BioFiction Science Art Film Festival - Vienna 2019
Art Machines - Utrecht, Netherlands December 2019
