US 2021/0174773 A1 · System and method for generating music from electrodermal activity data

Abstract

The Plant Choir™ system comprises a software program and hardware that measures the electrodermal activity of a person, plant, or animal and translates those readings into music on a computing device. The EDA readings of the individual subjects are translated via the software into musical notes in real time. The creation of the notes is synchronized to a master tempo in order to allow the subjects to play together in a unified fashion similar to a choir. A riff mode allows the subjects to produce multiple notes per beat. The music is rendered using a software synthesis algorithm that employs the pre-recorded sounds of real instruments. The software can also utilize MIDI devices if the operating system has that capability. The software allows the user to load and save their settings so they can create and experiment with their own choir configurations and musical scales.

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Dependent claims

A system for generating music from the electrodermal activity data of a plurality of subjects, the system comprising

a computing device comprising
software that converts EDA data to musical notes by
converting variations in an EDA signal from each of multiple subjects to musical notes, and
synchronizing musical notes from the multiple subjects to a master tempo setting;
a plurality of EDA devices, each EDA device configured to acquire electrodermal activity data from a subject, each electrodermal activity device comprising
a pair of input leads configured to be attached to a subject,
a resistance sensing circuit configured to provide a constant voltage across the first pair of input leads and to provide a non-linear response to the electrodermal resistance of the subject, the resistance sensing circuit comprising
an operational amplifier circuit configured to apply a constant voltage across the first pair of input leads and to provide an output voltage that is proportional to current flowing through the subject, and
a microcontroller configured to take samples and transmitting data to the computing device;
and
a sound rendering module.

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A system for generating music from the electrodermal activity data of a first subject, the system comprising

a first electrodermal activity device comprising
a first pair of input leads configured to be attached to the first subject,
a resistance sensing circuit configured to provide a constant voltage across the first pair of input leads and to provide a non-linear response to the electrodermal resistance of the first subject, the resistance sensing circuit comprising
an operational amplifier circuit configured to apply a constant voltage across the first pair of input leads and to provide an output voltage that is proportional to the current flowing through the first subject, and
a microcontroller configured to take samples and transmitting data to the computing device;
a computing device comprising software that converts EDA data to musical notes by
converting variations in an EDA signal from each of multiple subjects to musical notes, and
synchronizing musical notes from the multiple subjects to a master tempo setting;
and
a sound rendering module.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for generating music from electrodermal activity data

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System and method for generating music from electrodermal activity data

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