Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media

This week in the arts, attend an original, gender-expansive adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; see the dancer-illusionists of MOMIX, and more . . .

The Seattle Symphony's 2018-19 composer in residence Derek Bermel collaborates with Marcin Paczkowsky, a research associate in DXARTS.

This week, attend opening night of “Romeo and Jules”, witness musicians perform with their brains, drop in at the library for a lunchtime concert . . . 

Seattle isn’t cheap, and that’s not changing anytime soon. But your budget shouldn’t stand in the way of seeing great art. Here’s how.

Visiting artists are immersed in creative research at the UW through an interdisciplinary initiative.

Dr. Thomas Duell, a neurologist at Swedish Medical Center and a music professor at UW, invented an instrument that reads the electrical activity of the brain and turns it into musical notes.

Good news for people who hate practicing scales: scientists have created a musical instrument you can play with just your thoughts. 

It’s a story you really have to see to believe: people playing music simply by “thinking” it. 

The Disklavier is an electromagnetic piano that is played by brain waves alone, with the performer hooked up to an electroencephalogram (EEG).

...The encephalophone, an invention that, despite sounding like a discarded Muppet Show prop, is actually a fascinating new instrument developed for neurological and music research.

Neurologists, composers and tech-geeks at the UW's DXARTS program study music and the mind — including the encephalophone, a new instrument you can play without moving a muscle.

Faculty from the School of Music and the DXARTS are—literally—getting inside the minds of the musicians of New York's JACK QUARTET in a year-long exploration on the frontiers of artistic creation.

“Looking at a little 3-inch screen is just some weird thing we do at the moment,” says Axel Roesler, professor of interaction design at the UW.

DXARTS faculty and students find artistic inspiration in the tools of neuroscience.

Composer Marcin Pączkowski uses sensor technology to alter music through specific movements.