The EEGsynth
August 11-13, Uzeste, France Originally Created by Gérard Assayag (IRCAM) and Marc Chemillier (EHESS), Improtech is both a musical festival and an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together actors of research and creation from all over the world around the question of musical improvisation in interaction with digital intelligences, in an assumed approach of human-machine co-creativity. […]
Back around 2010 we first explored open-hardware EEG for some fun, creative uses of real-time EEG analyses and control. At the time, there was not much around in terms of affordable EEG hardware or even real-time EEG analyses software. At the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Nijmegen (NL), Robert was setting up the first […]
Per Huttner makes a performative lecture with the online platform The Teheran Summit on May 19, 18.00 CET using the EEGsynth. In the talk he will first make a short demonstration of the EEGsynth. It is a technology platform that him and others in the VF team use to make performances with the help of […]
We are proud to announce that “LPJ-L” will perform at “Vetenskapsfestivalen” (The Science Festival) in Gothenburg 7pm May 7. The concert is open to the public at free of charge (Göteborgs universitet, Humanisten, Trappscenen, Renströmsgatan 6, 412 55 Göteborg). More practical details here. The group which has been playing under different monikers (e.g. 1+1=3 and […]
On September 17th, Samon and I gave a performative online presentation at the DNArchi conference titled «Conception & Emotion, Physiology, neurocognition» for which we re-activated a dormant artistic research project that Samon started in 1999: The Neurhome. It consists of an imagined future, in which our habitation is able to anticipate and act on all […]
We are happy to announce the relaunch of the first project that was cancelled due to the Covid-19 situation. We were meant to meet in Copenhagen April 15-20. Now Nordic musicians and composers will meet in Stockholm, since travel restrictions make it hard to organise workshops anywhere else. We are generously hosted at Kungliga Tekniska […]
Wow, Pure Data is a blast! Coming from asynchronous procedural coding, visual programming of realtime data/audio flows was a novel excersise by itself. But my love comes from the elegance of it’s minimalism: just a handful of objects that you can put on a single A4 reference sheet, and some basic rules concerning the order […]
Pretty much since I started acquiring my own modular synth rack, I’ve been wanting to get myself the Verbos Harmonic Oscillator. Now I finally have one, partly after convincing myself it would be so very useful for making brainwave music. Last weekend I created the first EEGsynth patch for this wonderfully sounding module, mapping out […]
April 7-9, 2017 For two nights we stayed at the ASTRON radio telescope facility in Dwingelo, The Netherlands to develop the protocols for the COGITO performance envisioned by artist Daniela de Paulis. The primary goal of this meeting was to develop a paradigm in which high quality electroencephalography (EEG) is recorded while the participant is […]
I have been looking into TouchOSC as an example application that can send and receive Open Sound Control (OSC) messages. I have installed it on my iPhone 5 and on my iPad 2. Using the inputosc/outputosc modules I can read/write OSC messages with EEGsynth. The only thing that I have not figured out yet is how to broadcast OSC messages. We are […]
A lot of development on the EEGsynth software has happened since the BrainHackathon in Paris. The following modules are now implemented (in alphabetical order): accelerometer brain buffer eyeblink heartrate inputosc keyboard launchcontrol muscle openbci2ft outputcvgate outputosc playback pulsegenerator redis sequencer synthesizer volcabass volcabeats volcakeys All the code for the EEGsynth is managed on GitHub, where […]
During our work meeting in Athens, we explored and tested the EEG-synth: EEG recordings controlling analogue synthesizers. What follows is a summary of how we solved the main technical and practical issues we encountered and those that still need to be dealt with. More about the output of the meeting will come in the next […]
I registered on GitHub, and created a repository to share our developing code. For now I just tested it by uploading the lastest OpenBCI python code. You can find the repository here.