Special Session: Helping Through Music

The ICDVRAT & ArtAbilitation conference will close on the morning of Thursday, 11^th September with a special session on music and disability, entitled Helping Through Music. This session, to be held at the Casa da Música, will include the presentations on the developments of the World Music Day concert based on the concept of sense substitution.

• Infrared sound and music controller for users with specific needs, B P Challis and K Challis, University of Glamorgan, UK/Education Bradford, UK
• SOUND=SPACE OPERA, A P Almeida, L M Girão, R Gehlhaar, P M Rodrigues, P Neto and M Mónica, Fundação Casa da Música/Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Artshare Lda., Aveiro, PORTUGAL and University of Plymouth/Coventry University, UK
• CaDaReMi: an educational interactive music game, R Gehlhaar, L M Girão and P M Rodrigues, Coventry University/University of Plymouth, UK and Artshare Lda., Aveiro/Fundação Casa da Música, PORTUGAL
• Making music with images: interactive audiovisual performance systems for the deaf, M Grierson, Goldsmiths College, UK
• Using immersion in a musical virtual space environment to enhance quality of body movement in young adults with hemiparesis, P Lopes-dos-Santos, A Nanim, H Fernandes and J Levi, University of Porto/UADIP/Balleteatro, PORTUGAL
• Mix-it-yourself with a brain-computer music interface, E R Miranda and V Soucaret, University of Plymouth, UK

Followed by Session 11 – Interpretations. World Music Day Panel session

Casa da Música is within easy reach of Maia where the other ICDVRAT/ArtAbilitation conference sessions are hosted (a single Metro journey). For more information on the Rem Koolhaas' designed Casa Da Música please take a 360 degree panoramic tour.