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Sebastian Mealla

Sebastián Mealla C. (M) holds a B.S. in Audiovisual Communication and a MSc. in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (CSIM). He is a PhD candidate in the Music Technology Group (MTG) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, and member of the Musical and Advanced Interaction team (MTG-UPF).  Mealla’s research work focuses on Human-Computer Interaction and Physiological Computing. In 2008, he received the MAEC- AECID scholarship to pursue his research on neuroscience and HCI at UPF and, since then, has obtained the support of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (TEC2010) and of Starlab Living Science for the development of Brain-Computer Interfaces for multimodal interaction.

Alba Rosado

Alba B. Rosado has received a B.S. in Telecommunication Engineering, MSc. in Telecommunication Engineering & Management , and holds postgraduate diplomas in Information Systems Management, all by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and in Management of the Business Aspects of Science and Technology by the Barcelona School of Management (IDEC-UPF). She is responsible for R&D promotion and technology transfer activities in the Music Technology Group from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She has has been part of the coordination team behind the MIReS, PHENICX and Giant Steps European projects. She has been involved in the organisation of several events in Barcelona, such as SMC’10, TEI’13, and Music Hack Day since its first edition in 2010.

Adam Parkinson

Adam Parkinson is a researcher, performer and curator based in the EAVI research group. He was artistic co-chair of the 2014 New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, and has organised events at the Whitechapel Gallery alongside the long running EAVI nights in South East London. As a programmer and performer he has worked with artists including Arto Lindsay, Caroline Bergvall, Phill Niblock, Rhodri Davies and Kaffe Matthews, and has performed throughout Europe and North America. He is interested in new musical instruments and the discourses around them, and the cultural and critical spaces between academia and club culture.

Direct integration with Biosignals Hardware

The Rapi-Api provides an easy to use biosignal hardware for performance, health and gaming, through direct integration with PLUX BITalino and OpenSignals framework.

Audio processing

Rapid-API integrates Maximilian and Papa Engine features set as an incredibly sophisticated and cross-platform audio engine to be simple to use. The syntax and program structure are based on the popular ‘Processing’ environment, will provide standard waveforms, envelopes, sample playback, resonant filters, and delay lines, equal power stereo, quadraphonic and 8-channel ambisonic support is included. There’s also Granular synthesisers with Timestretching, FFTs and some Music Information Retrieval stuff. It allows integration of hi-fidelity 3D spatialised sound into your iOS project with ease.

Free, Open Source and Cross-Platform

Free, Open Source (LGPLv3*) and Cross-Platform, the RAPID-API, as one of the main outcomes of the Rapid-Mix project, is a software framework that connects multimodal sensors, including position, movement, biosignal signals, for performance, health and gaming.