Artist / Engineer / Multi-instrumentalist / Researcher
Turning brainwaves and biosignals into music, I explore how we sense sound and how it helps us play, perform and heal.
Caroline Robin is an artist, engineer, multi-instrumentalist and researcher based in Seattle, WA and New York, NY.
Working across cello, piano, bass, guitar and synthesizer, she explores how sensing and perception shape the way we make and experience music, and how that understanding can serve both performance and recovery. Her current projects explore brain-computer music interfaces and other applications that turn live EEG signals and other biometric data into sound, which she has performed for numerous audiences.
With a background spanning software and hardware engineering, signal processing, AI, wireless energy transfer, and studio and live sound engineering, she brings a builder's curiosity to questions about the mind, the body and music. She is a resident producer and engineer at Open Space for Arts & Community on Vashon Island, and is pursuing graduate coursework at the University of Washington and Berklee College of Music.
A brain-computer music interface. Consumer and custom-built EEG headbands stream brainwave activity, which is mapped in real time to sound and played live alongside acoustic and electronic instruments. We explore how related approaches can support mental health, brain-injury rehabilitation and trauma recovery in clinical and non-clinical settings.
Studio and live sound engineer and designer. Audio and systems engineering for industry pioneers in AI, humanoid robotics, natural language processing and intelligent music synthesis. Industry program lead and systems engineer for safe, intelligent wireless energy transfer for NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Experimental, house-forward and psychedelic live DJ sets, original productions, and an inspired feminist pop protest collective creating digital graffiti.
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