Marco Donnarumma will introduce the XTH Sense (https://marcodonnarumma.com/works/xth-sense/), a biophysical wearable instrument that amplifies sounds from heart, blood and muscles of a performer’s body and uses them to create music, video or light in real-time. It was created by Donnarumma in 2010 and used ever since in all of his works, ranging from biophysical music concerts, actions art pieces, installations and dance-theater productions.

Several papers on the instrument and the practice of biophysical music can be found at this link: https://marcodonnarumma.com/writings/conference-proceedings/

A performance made exclusively with the XTH Sense can be seen here: https://marcodonnarumma.com/works/ominous/

The XTH Sense is open source and open hardware, meaning that its software, the hardware documentation and tutorials to make and use the instrument are freely downloadable on-line. The XTH Sense is used by creatives ranging from performing artists and musicians, to researchers in physiotherapy and prosthetics, and universities and students in diverse fields.

Visiting researcher Jon Reus will also present his Anatomies of Intelligence networked theatre. They have implemented temporal control to a machine learning algorithm in that work.

https://anatomiesofintelligence.github.io/about.html