The EEGsynth
July 25-26, EEGsynth HQ Samon Takahashi and I have been working on a second EEGsynth musical set, to accompany Steady-State. For a set to work, a lot has to be in place. Sound preparations For months, I’ve been preparing the sonic and control elements of the patch. By now I have a number of Eurorack […]
Our first exhibition at the new Center for AI and Data Science, of the work of the artist Zaven Paré, showed us the kind of art-science program we want to build: an open exchange between fields that brings fresh energy and new encounters to the institute, and ties us into the wider conversations about science, […]
What happens when you bring neuroscientists, hackers, and artists together for a weekend? Apparently, something that shouldn’t be possible. I was brought in to help with Project 1 at Hacktionpotential, at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM), after the organizers discovered their planned EEG setup only provided offline data through the cloud, which is not ideal […]
December 5th, 2025 Together with Benoît Fliche (Institut d’ethnologie et d’anthropologie sociale, Aix-Marseille Université) and Eduard Fosch Villaronga (Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University), I was invited to talk about A.I. from the perspective of neuroscience and my own artistic practice. The occasion was a series of talks on AI at École nationale […]
On July 1–5, Romain Ligneul and Daniela Domingue organized the NeuroGraduate Summer School in Cognitive Neuroscience. It was an energetic fusion of neuroscience and technology through lectures and practical exercises at the neurocampus of University Claude Bernard, Lyon. Over the course of the week, students were immersed in the foundations of cognitive modeling, learning how […]
–Per Hüttner and Robert Oostenveld at Q, Copenhagen, February 26, 2025 In the performance we allow microbes to “create” their own music and images. We film their activity under a microscope. We then use the real time images to measure how the microbes move and then turn the data into control signals that influence sound […]
Swedish Choreographer Carima Neusser and Paris-based artist Per Huttner have both been returning to work in Mexico regularly during the last decade. They have previously presented performances in institutions like Museo Jumex and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Queretaro. The two will work on new pieces in Mexico in winter 2024-25 to develop new work during […]
Last Friday night, EEGsynth and friends gathered for a public performance of Alpha Xiao at Chair de Poule, showcasing their research from the past two weeks. In the heart of the bustling XIe arrondissement, they shared a meditative blend of rhythms and melodies, featuring the Chinese Xiao flute alongside digital sound synthesis. The sounds flowed, […]
La Generale is an amazing cultural centre in the heart of Paris. We have been in residence there and made several performances and concerts in the wonderful and warm ambience of La Generale. It is a water hole in Parisian culture. It is a venue of enormous importance for Paris, for France and for the […]
Nour Justinia Hotel, Sousse, Tunisia.Organiser: Elbirou Art Gallery with AllArtNow and Vision ForumCurators: Abir Boukhari & Karim Sghaier In conjunction with the UV biennial, Vision Forum will present an evening with a performances with the Swedish artist Per Huttner and Tunisian artist Amine Melki. The project takes place in a centrally located hotel which is […]
Welcome to: Sonifications: a one-day festival on Microbes in Art and Science – Lectures, performances, installations – June 18, 2024 @ 15:00 – 21:00 — – ASIL Labs, Krook, Ghent — Discover the sounds of genetically modified microorganisms singing – encounter bacteria that generate their own films and soundtracks in real time – hear and […]
London based composer and musician Tomas Nordmark and Paris based musician and visual artist and musician Per Hüttner have been working together since 2021. Together they develop creative and visionary performances using the technology platform EEGsynth. The EEGsynth is a hard and software platform that allows performers to create sounds and images using neural signals […]
Welcome to join us for two experimental biofeedback concerts. 20h, May 18, 2024 at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan, Sweden The audience is invited to go on a hypnotic journey while they experience the two concerts. Entrance is free. Teatermaskinen, Skräppbo Skola, 73091 Riddarhyttan, info@teatermaskinen.com +460706811481 The project forms a part of Transformation III and is co-funded […]
Vision Forum is proud to announce that Alpha Xiao and Zygote are presenting performances at Tribunalen festival in Stockholm. They will present new work at 6pm and 8.30pm respectively on May 12, 2024. Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group consisting of a portable electroencephalagraph (EEG) modulating designed audio samples and a traditional Chinese flute called a […]
La Générale, Paris, France April 29 – May 12th Developments for Transformation III continue with a second 2-week residency for EEGsynth at La Générale, Laboratoire artistique politique et social. During the first days, Samon Takahashi and I developed Steady-State [version for 2] further. We also put efforts into recording several exercises, which we hope will […]
– Chaire de poule, rue Sain Maure, 75011, Paris– May 10, 2024 -concert starts at 8pm The Swedish-French musical festival, Transformation III organises multiple residencies, public presentations and concerts in France, Belgium and Sweden. It brings together artists from multiple fields, researchers primarily from neuroscience and technology developers from many fields to make music based […]
– Welcome to join us at Domaine départemental de Chamarande April 26 at 18h/6pm. (We meet at the “Orangerie” or write us on “info (at) visionforum.eu” if you have further questions.) Do Trees Dream of CO2 is a collective Franco-Swedish collaboration. The team has been developing technology and artistic expressions to facilitate interspecies dialogues between […]
What can be learned from animal communication? How do we understand animals ? Can water be a being? or What can a cod concert sound like? Animals communicate amongst each other. There is also important communication between species. Their communication offer new perspectives on language and a peek into a fascinating non-human world. Experience music based […]
Vision Forum is organising Transformation III in Paris together with our French partners. To prepare, Swedish musicians are in Paris to develop new music based on biofeedback February 29- March 2. The festival in France will bring together artists from multiple fields, researchers primarily from neuroscience and technology developers from many field. Participants come from […]
Members of the EEGsynth have been doing research in Mexico City, Oaxaca and Chiapas in December 2023 and January 2024. They have been in residency at El Dia D in Santiago de Queretaro, January 21 – February 12, 2024. During this time they will be working with artists and choreographers from Mexico and Canada and […]
Café de Paris, Paris, France November 12th, 2023 The prologue of Transformation III has started with a series of performances, talks and demonstrations by EEGsynth, with increasing scope in themes, collaborators, experiments and developments. As part of these explorations, Samon organized a set of performances and new collaborations at Café de Paris. A taste of […]
La Générale, Paris, France November 1st Developments for Transformation III has begun with a two-week residency at La Générale, the Laboratoire artistique politique et social at Paris. A summary was shown during a public event, with: Thomas Auroux, Ludvig Elblaus, Per Hüttner, Samon Takahashi & Stephen Whitmarsh. The event was live-streamed on p-node radio (thanks Kevin!).
Ludvig Elblaus, Per Huttner and Thomas Auroux perform the work together. In the performance Auroux, who is a practising hypnotherapist, hypnotises Huttner. The latter is wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap and Elblaus uses Huttner’s brain activity to make music in real time using specifically developed instruments. After a short theoretical introduction Elblaus makes a 15 […]
Le Cube, Garges-lès-Gonesse, France October 11th, 2023 The prologue of Transformation III has started with a series of performances, talks and demonstrations by EEGsynth, notably during a residency at La Générale, the Laboratoire artistique politique et social in Paris. Two performance were organized at Le Cube, Garges-lès-Gonesse, France. The first one occurred on October 11th, […]
– Performance in collaboration with Teatermaskinen September 8, 2023 For “Island CO2″ at Teatermaskinen in Sweden’s Bergslagen, Per Huttner and Karine Bonneval take their project “Do Trees Dream of CO2″ to the next level. In the performance they create a platform for communication between trees and humans. As the sun sets, the audience is invited […]
Animist Journey is a performance by Per Huttner with Sámi shaman Jonas Engman. It was performed at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan on September 8, 2023. When the performance begins, Engman is already in trance and he wears his shaman attire. He starts singing and playing his drum and embarks on a journey. Under his headgear he […]
The Swedish-French music collective Circle Squared is in residence at Andersbo. On August 26, 2023, 14.00- 17.00 they will present two concerts at Unnaryds Kyrka.They will present a new performance: Per Huttner will be hypnotized by the French hypnotherapist Thomas Auroux. Per’s brain activity is measured in real time with electroencephalography (EEG,) his muscle activity […]
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. […]
In May 2022 Per Huttner was invited by French-Iranian artist Ghazel to present his work. He made a one hour online presentation about his artistic practice and his work with the EEGsynth for the Tehran summit. He draws from a text by Vaclav Havel called that he wrote in 1978. He explains that power structures […]
A previously unknown world of microbes is being revealed by current discoveries in many different fields. What is discovered drastically changes the way we understand ourselves. Naturally questions arise: How can these tiny creatures inform our lives? Where do we encounter them? How can we live in symbiosis? An international group of artists, thinkers and […]