Siranush Babakhanova is Co-Founder of Neoperception, and an Undergraduate Researcher in the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT. “Neoperceptions” aims to explore the ways to augment human perception through live performance experiences. This art-meets-science project includes contributions from researchers at the MIT Physics Department, MIT Media Lab, as well as Arizona State University Sci Hub, The Boston Museum of Science, and the synesthesia-influenced composer Mary Bichner, and is advised by theoretical physicists Frank Wilczek (Nobel laureate and Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics), and Nathan Newman (Lamonte H. Lawrence Professor in Solid State Science). The prototype of Neoperception premiered during Bichner’s “Synesthesia Suite” concert at the Charles Hayden Planetarium last April, and has since been exhibited at MIT Design Week, MIT Media Lab, and other events.

http://neoperceptions.net/

Psyche Loui is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, with a focus in psychology and neuroscience, where she is also the Director of MIND Lab. Loui earned her PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, after earning her BA in Psychology and Music, and certificate in Neuroscience from Duke University. She has since held faculty positions in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Integrative Sciences at Wesleyan University, and in Neurology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. When not doing research on how music can be used to understand the brain, Loui performs as a violinist in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, a Boston-based orchestra that strives to heal the community through music, and in Folie a Quatre, a string quartet with mental health professionals.

https://web.northeastern.edu/mindlab/
http://www.psycheloui.com 

Marcel Zaes is an artist and artistic researcher, holding degrees from University of the Arts in Bern and Zurich University of the Arts, and has studied composition with Alvin Curran in Rome and with Peter Ablinger in Berlin. Zeas' artistic practice explores the ways in which rhythm forms the basis for community, that is, rhythm affords the sociality that is traditionally called “making music together,” or “dancing together,” even if no such action is involved at all. He investigates mechanical time, its politics and its socio-cultural contexts with an interdisciplinary framework that encompasses sound and media studies, new technologies, critical race studies, and performance and dance studies. HIs work has been showcased at the at ISEA Hong Kong, the Center for New Music San Francisco, Goethe Institute New Delhi, Biennial of Contemporary Arts Lisbon, Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, and at Columbia University in New York. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Music & Multimedia Composition at Brown University.

https://marcelzaes.com/