It is with great delight that I introduce the reader to Computer Music Journal’s 2015 Sound and Video Anthology. I have curated a series of diverse, yet interrelated, works on the theme of biophysical music. With this term, I refer to live music pieces based on a combination of physiological technology and markedly physical, gestural performance. In these works, the physical and physiological properties of the performers’ bodies are interlaced with the material and computational qualities of the electronic instruments, with varying degrees of mutual influence. Musical expression thus arises from an intimate and, often, not fully predictable negotiation of human bodies, instruments, and programmatic musical ideas.

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