CHANT: Timeless Themes on a Responsive Stage
The Dance DiSH, August 2026
A review of CHANT, a large-scale interdisciplinary performance by NobleMotion Dance exploring collective ritual, voice, movement, and technology. Khaleghian served as co-producer, artistic visionary, composer, and multimedia artist for the work, shaping its overall artistic direction while developing the music and interactive multimedia systems that connect sound, projection, technology, and live performance.
CHANT on Houston Public Media’s Houston Matters
Houston Public Media, August 2026
Khaleghian joined NobleMotion Dance co-director Andy Noble and vocalist and Bowdoin faculty member Kari Francis to discuss CHANT, an interdisciplinary performance combining contemporary dance, collective voice, electronic music, and interactive media. As co-producer and artistic visionary, Khaleghian helped shape the conceptual and artistic direction of the work while also serving as its composer and multimedia artist.
Combining Movement, Wordless Voices, and Technology
Bowdoin News, August 2026
Bowdoin profiles the creation of CHANT, an interdisciplinary performance developed with NobleMotion Dance that brings together contemporary movement, collective voice, electronic music, projection, and interactive technology. Khaleghian served as co-producer and artistic visionary, helping define the work’s conceptual and aesthetic direction while also composing the music and developing its multimedia and technological systems.
Third Angle New Music: 2026–27 Season
Third Angle New Music, 2026–27
Khaleghian was appointed Guest Creative Director for Third Angle New Music’s 2026–27 season. As part of the season, he is developing Neural Duet, a new performance in which his live neural activity becomes part of a musical dialogue between performer, machine-learning systems, and a Steinway Spirio player piano.
ROCO Connections: Sense of Mind
ARTECHOUSE Houston / ROCO / MD Anderson Cancer Center, May 2026
Sense of Mind explored how the brain responds to live music through EEG data, performance, and immersive media. Khaleghian designed the real-time visualization system, translating neural activity recorded from participants into responsive projected environments surrounding the audience and musicians.
“Meeting of Minds”: Mapping Synchrony Across Music, Dance and Brain
The Rice Thresher
Meeting of Minds brought together musicians, dancers, and neuroscientists to investigate synchronization between performing bodies and brains. Khaleghian designed the live brain-computer visualization system, transforming performers’ EEG activity and neural synchrony into projected imagery in real time. The project received Chamber Music America’s 2025 Interdisciplinary Collaboration of the Year Award.
Where Music Meets Neuroscience
Bowdoin News, August 2025
This Bowdoin research project investigates how brain activity can become an active participant in musical creation. Khaleghian, working with student Jintae Park and collaborators in neuroscience and medicine, developed a system that maps EEG brain-wave data onto musical material performed by a self-playing piano, creating a real-time feedback loop between brain activity and sound.
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN / American Composers Forum, August 2025
In this invited artist feature, Khaleghian shares music and composers that have shaped his artistic practice. He discusses influences ranging from Iranian musical traditions and Deep Listening to experimental composition, improvisation, electronics, and interdisciplinary performance.
Music Scholars Showcase Electronic and Improvisational Work at ISEA
Bowdoin News, July 2025
Khaleghian presented performance and interactive-media work at the International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA) in Seoul, South Korea. With collaborators Aruna Kharod and Kate Campbell Strauss, he performed interdisciplinary improvisations and presented ZAVA, his networked interactive system designed to enable audience participation in collective music-making.
A Feast for the Senses: Center for Experimental Multimedia Art
Bowdoin News, April 2025
Bowdoin profiles the Center for Experimental Multimedia Art (CEMA), founded and directed by Khaleghian. He conceived CEMA as an interdisciplinary environment for immersive performance, multimedia research, experimentation, and teaching, bringing together spatial audio, large-scale projection, interactive technologies, and collaborative work across the arts and sciences.
“Meeting of Minds”: mapping synchrony across music, dance and brain
Dr. Badie Khaleghian designed the live data visualizations that translated performers’ brain-wave activity into projected imagery during the interdisciplinary “Meeting of Minds” performance blending neuroscience, music, and dance. He collaborated with researchers at Rice University, University of Houston and other institutions to enable real-time brain-computer interfaces in a stage context.
Where Music Meets Neuroscience
The project led by Dr. Khaleghian and student Jintae Park explores the intersection of music and neuroscience by using EEG brain-wave data to drive a self-playing piano, to create a brain-computer feedback loop that might help people with neurological conditions such as anxiety or dementia. They collaborated with researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center and a medical-device company to connect brain-wave frequency bands to musical motifs. The work is still in early stages, but it highlights the highly interdisciplinary nature of combining music, technology, neuroscience and health.
Student’s Success:
Portrait of an Artist: Hayden Mann ’27
Assistant Professor Badie Khaleghian’s Introduction to Electronic Music course reignited Hayden Mann ’27’s interest and gave him the practical grounding in sound design and track building that propelled his recent momentum toward a record deal.
