The EEGsynth
The musical collective LPJ-L which uses the EEGsynth to produce new and exciting music has started developing new material for a series of concerts in spring 2023. Parallel to that they prepare a series of album releases. In preparation for both, members of the collective will meet in Copenhagen August 26-28 and November 30 to […]
ICL conference website Atau Tanaka and I presented our work on EMG-EEG hybridization for Brain-Body Digital Music Instrument (BBDMI) during this year’s ICLI 2022, on June 20th – 23rd, 2022. It was a blast! The presentations and performances explored digital art, computation and their relationship to human thought, experience and art. The conference was a hybrid […]
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 […]
The EEGsynth team is proud to announce that we will present “Ghetto Gucci” at documenta fifteen June 17, 18 and 19 with Atis Resizstans/Ghetto Biennial at St. Kunigundis, Leipziper str. 145, Kassel. The performance will start at 19h June 17 and 20h June 18 and 19. Background to the piece: During the 6th Ghetto Biennial […]
Vision Forum is proud to announce the third incarnation of Governing Bodies. It includes several EEGsynth events and previous collaborators like Professor Veikko Jousmäko. The project has previously appeared on Zoom, in Östersund and in Copenhagen. The session in Finland is co-organised with The Bioart Society and takes place June 1-5, 2022. Together the two […]
June 20th – 23rd, 2022 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e TecnologiasCampo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa Atau Tanaka and I will be presenting our work on EMG-EEG hybridization for Brain-Body Digital Music Instrument (BBDMI) during this year’s ICLI 2022, on June 20th – 23rd. We hope you will join us! Attendance is free, both remote and at […]
As part of her seminar Human-Computer Partnerships at the Collège de France, Professor Wendy Mackay invited Atau Tanaka to about his work and views on human-computer interaction in music creation. Prof. Mackay introduced the day by positioning artificial intelligence in human computer partnerships. She emphasized her user-centered perspective, in which many aspects of implementation (e.g. […]
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 […]
The EEGsynth team had an honorary guest today: French musician, composer and researcher Philippe Langlois. He tried the EEGsynth for the first time and he immediately showed some impressive alpha peaks along with other magic waves. Philippe has a long history of practicing meditation (using the Lotus Sutra) so it was immediately easy for him […]
The EEGsynth collaborates with Norwegian biologists, Norwegian musicians and Dutch researchers to develop performances that are created to be presented to both humans and cod fish. In the project we use high-quality recordings of cod fish’s mating sounds and turn them into aesthetically interesting music. We also let the cod’s movement patterns control sound, light […]
The 1+1=3 team will be working in the UK March 27-31 to create new sounds and music using the EEGsynth. They are joined by London-based composer and music producer Tomas Nordmark. Together they will look for new strategies for making music using both parties technology platforms, experiences and aesthetic know how. The group has previously […]
1+1=3 will perform at 3031 Art Fest in Cairo, March 12 at 7.30pm. The Festival takes place at the epic Darb 1718 art centre. They will perform “Neu Oscillations,” a one hour long piece conceived by the group during Nordic workshops organised and carried out by Vision Forum in Sweden and Denmark 2019-2021. The piece […]
With the EEGsynth setup now running with the Mentalab Explore, we couldn’t wait to try out the magnificent facilities at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) Paris Nord, and start using the EEGsynth in their research of ambisonic diffusion. It is just the beginning, but were started exploring a patch to control the position and […]
The EEGsynth team offers members of the public the opportunity try their music platform to make sounds with their brain activity. The workshop takes place at at Darb1718 and forms an integrated part of the 3031 Art Fest. During the workshop visitors will use electroencephalogram to influence sounds. Three people at the time can use the […]
Paris HQ 2.0 The EEGsynth HQ in Paris has gotten quite a facelift during the COVID-19 times: cork panels on the wall for aesthetics and sound diffusion, a new desk, and a couch for visitors and listening. The center-piece is a large wooden DIY Eurorack case by Ginkosynthese, in which I installed two Doepfer PSU3s […]
Musicians, artists, scientists and everyone in between: we have amazing news! The Body Brain Digital Music Instruments (BBDMI) project, led by MSH Paris Nord, has won a prestigious ANR grant. The partners include: MSH Paris Nord: Anne Sèdes (Coordinator) & Atau Tanaka Paris 8 University’s CICM/MUSIDANSE: Alain Bonardi & David Fierro Sorbonne University, Salpêtrière Hospital, […]
Vision Forum together with their partners, Out of the Circle (Egypt), H2 (Morocco) and AllArtNow (Syria) are proud to announce the public program for Local Role Models in Cairo January 6. In “Local Role Models” performances and workshops will become catalysts to spread positive ideas, stories and unique life journeys from the MENA region. The […]
On December 12, 2021, Per Huttner will present a performative lecture at Index in Stockholm. The presentation takes its starting point in Pauline Curnier Jardin’s work and her exhibition entitled “Waiting for Agatha, Sebastian and all the Other Holy Children.” The goal of the event is to support her in the making of her future […]
Per Huttner will perform “Surgery and Ontology” within the framework of “An Infinite Love” in Paris on November 27. The performance constitutes a journey backwards in Time. The artist and audience together dwell on questions about life and death and how western conceptions about the difference between subjects and objects influence our understanding of the […]
Circle Squared is a project that sets out to build further on the hardware and software development of the biofeedback platform “the EEGsynth.” The current project will strengthen the aesthetic and artistic potential of the EEGsynth. The goal is to develop technology that can be used by performers to create work where sound, moving images […]
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 […]
On Saturday August 21, Swedish artist Per Huttner will be performing “Duet with a Dying Plant” at Brandenburger Kunstverein in Potsdam. The performance is a musical improvisation where the artist and a dying plant make sounds together. This is achieved by putting electrodes on the plant and on the artist’s skull. These generate real time […]
St. Joost Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Breda, Netherlands. Daniela de Paulis and I were invited to present an (online) workshop for the St. Joost Academy for Art and Design on March 5th, 2021. Daniela was invited to speak on the topic of collaboration, as her work is examplary of complex interdisciplinary collaboration. As a […]
With Vision Forum the EEGsynth team is creating performances for sleeping audiences in a project called “Delta.” We are interested how art can become a part of enriching the third of our lives that we spend asleep. The starting point can be found in the fact that some people have very rich nocturnal lives, while […]
In the second installment of the Untitled Biofeedback Project Nordic musicians and composers will meet in Copenhagen July 8-12. The project builds further on the hardware and software development of the biofeedback platform “the EEGsynth.” Members of the network have been involved in the team of developers since its inception 2014 and the first meeting […]
The duo Alpha Xiao which uses our brain-interface and live flute modulated by brain activities participated in the project An Infinite Love at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm. During two days visual artists, surgeons and thinkers organised guided tours in and around Konstnärshuset in Stockholm. The walk ended with Alpha Xiao playing a live piece. Alpha-Xiao · […]
We are proud to announce that Italian Radio “Firefly Frequencies” dedicate the first episode of their series “An Archive of Dreams” to the project “Delta.” In Delta a group artists and neuroscientists develop performances for sleeping audiences. Participants from multiple European countries together develop technology and content to enrich the nocturnal lives of dreamers and […]
The EEGsynth has, since its birth in Sao Paulo, always been an international affair. We have presented our work and made performances in Europe, North and South America. Sadly the planned tour of China, Korea and Japan had to be postponed due to the current situation with Covid-19. To make up for lost opportunities, we […]
1+1=3 has been planning to record an album since 2017 and it has never happened for many different reasons. Most recently, a session was planned in April 2020, but was postponed because of the situation with Covid-19. We are therefore very pleased to have spent four days in Copenhagen in Huhta Home Studio totally focused […]