The EEGsynth
Over the years we’ve explored many ways of patching brain and body to sound and music using EEGsynth. The possible sonic permutations are infinite, and then there are the artistic, musical and performative aspects. For quite a while I’ve been wanting to organize our musical patching and visuosonic performances in a way that can be […]
Not all electromagnetic fields come from the body and brain, of course. We are surrounded by them. This DIY project makes it possible to listen to them. It is based on the “Electroluch” by LOM. They shared the source schematics, and more instructions are given in MakeZine, and in this blogplost. I followed the instructions […]
As goes for so many of you, our lives have been upended by the pandemic. We had our most anticipated events cancelled, including the recording of our first album in Copenhagen, a workshop at the Loop festival in Berlin, and performing with Cogito in Space at a CERN exhibit in Brussels. Now, 1+1=3 is scattered, […]
Next year we will be focusing on improving the conditions for artistic development in 1+1=3. After years of experience in developing performances, improving the software and documentation, and creating new concepts together, we are now launching EEGsynth artistic laboratories. We have come to realize the importance of such artistic laboratories, as they allow us all […]
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 […]
We are very grateful for the kind invitation by Emrik Larsson of Region Halland, and Susanne Linderborg from INES (Improviserat Nutida Experimentellt/elektroniskt Sound), as well as the enthusiastic audience and the very generous support at Fyren Kulturhus (Gothenburg, Sweden). Per Hemberg from Kungsbacka theatre streamed and archived our performance on the INES website. Photos
16 March 2019, Brest, France For the occasion of the Brain Awareness Week (Semaine du Cerveau), our friend Nicolas Farrugia has set up the following exciting event using the EEGsynth with the Carol Trio on 16 March 2019 in Brest, France. Musical improvisation is one of the first ways that human beings have found to […]
February 2nd, 2019, at Folkteatern, Gothenburg, Sweden. 1+1=3 was invited to perform at Folkteatern in Gothenburg. Special in this performance was the inclusion of EEG-controlled video-art made possible with a new module (the GeoMixer) made by Robert Oostenveld, in which a single control value (based on the EEG alpha level) is able to control the interaction between three […]
Wednesday, 23-1-2019, at 4PM at UNAM, Mexico City This Wednesday, Per Huttner will present the EEGsynth at the prestigious Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (Institute of Philosphical Research) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico city. Address below:
12th of January, 2019 at 8pm Kunstkapel, BeatrixparkPrinses Irenestraat 19-1 hoog1077 WT Amsterdam Robert, Daniela de Paulis and several sound artists returned to the Kunstkapel to spend another evening exploring new and developing concepts, music and technology, within the ever-widening collaboration between Cogito in Space and the EEGsynth. The performance included projections of segments of […]
A happy new year from the EEGsynth crew! We hope you had a great break from obligations and had time to touch base with yourself, your friends and your family. I spend the last week on skis during the day, but in the spirit of sharing spend occasional hours in the evening rewriting/organizing and updating […]
In the next post we will talk more in detail about how to use electro-physiological signals to control timing and tempo. But before we can talk more about that, we need to first understand how tempo is implemented in MIDI. In fact, we needed quite some time to figure this out ourselves, so that we […]
Check out our friends Daniela de Paulis (COGITO in space) and Robert Oostenveld (EEGsynth) this Saturday, December 1 at 20:00 in the Kunstkapel in Amsterdam. As part of a performative audio-visual-spatial (space) exploration, they will use the EEGsynth to sonify brain activity together with other live musicians and performers. The resemblance of the interior of […]
As I mentioned two posts ago, dealing properly with events has been next on our list. Using events for musical purposes has been on the back-burner previously, largely because we wanted to develop more uses of real-time analysis of continuous EEG signals. But in truly interdisciplinary fashion, the EEGsynth is now being used in a […]
Last week Per stayed over at EEGsynth HQ, and we took the opportunity to set him up and do some EEGsynth’ing. Using a new Zoom H6, we were able to nicely record the synth, together with a microphone that picked up Per’s egg shakers. Last time we played the EEGsynth we discovered that shaking those […]
Development of event-based processes in the EEGsynth have been slow. Although we have the sequencer and generateclock (formerly “synchronization”) module, with which many patches are possible, we have a long way to go toward truly creative, flexible and musical patching of events, based e.g. on ECG, EMG muscle-contractions, EOG from eye-blinks, and triggering events such as beats, lights, […]
Walking to the cabin of the radio telescope, under an especially star-filled sky, Michael and Jan point out to me their favorite constellations. Its the night before the big event, cold and bright. We would need a beach-chair for serious star gazing though, as our necks have started hurting from looking up all the time. […]
The ICM’s PhD and PostDoc association AJITES, of which I am now a proud member, organizes an annual workshop. During three days (October 24-26), we learn about each other’s research and practice our project development skills. This year we were joined by UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (ION) from London. I presented the early results […]
This weekend, Per and Samon stayed over at my new place. The new place is a big improvement: a lot more space, light and peace in which we can fall inside and engulf ourselves into the noise of our brain. In a “mini-residency”, we were able to get a lot of work done in two […]
For the occasion of the CuttingEEG conference at Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital), the art-science collective 1+1=3 created a special exhibition at the Charcot Library in which visitors could explore the aesthetic qualities of early scientific research in electrical (brain) activity. Books and illustrations were drawn from the personal library […]
We were very happy to work together with old and new friends on an avant-garde interdisciplinary art-science-food event: The Brain Brunch. It’s really hard to explain in words, but hopefully this video below will give you an impression.
1+1=3 was hosted by IKLECTIK for a short residency during which they developed a new performance using two EEG-performers interconnected via modular synthesizers, creating consonance and dissonance, change and order, in a push-and-pull of conscious and unconscious brain processes. The resultant work ‘Hemispherics’ was performed at IKLECTIK, on Saturday, April 28th, followed by a talk […]
Check our previous post for a bit more of a word-picture. Follow the events live at Radiobal.fr Photos (c) Vincent Rioux
A short reflection of how in the last three months we have started to transcend technology, and became art. The last two months have been busy times for the EEGsynth. I had planned this time as a bit of a break between jobs (I will start tomorrow at ICM, Pitié Salpêtrière analyzing inter-cranial recordings in […]
Wednesday, March 14th, 19:30 to 22:00Cycle de conférences à l’Ecole Normale SupérieureAmphithéâtre Jaurès, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris I left the Ecole Normale Supérieure barely two months ago, only to return with lectures on art and neuroscience, and an EEGsynth performance, as part of the program of the national Semaine du Cerveau (week of the brain). This was the […]
Epsilonia Mix for Radio Libertaire (89.4 FM), by Samon Takahashi, with the voice of Natasha Rosling Samon Takahashi created an exciting mix of music created by brain activity, and/or inspired by neuroscience. It is part of ongoing research Samon is taking into the history of EEG-based (brainwave) music. You can find the playlist and the gorgeous […]
COGITO in Space, at TecArt 2018. February 10th, at location Worm We had a great time at TecArt, where Daniela de Paulis, Guillaume Dumas and I presented COGITO in Space, conceived by artist Daniela de Paulis, in an interactive installation. Participants could sign up to have their EEG recorded while, within the 3D space of the Oculus Rift, watched […]
Le Second Square makers fairFebruary 17-18 at Carreau du Temple, Paris We had a great time at Le Second Square, a makers-art fair full of interactive installations, presentations and shows. It was a fund and busy event, also helped by suddenly beautiful weather in Paris. On Friday the 17th, Samon Takahashi gave a presentation on […]
At the finissage for the exhibition “Inget att se här!”, Jean-Louis Huhta presented magnetoencephalography recordings that were made using 306 sensors that picked up his brain’s magnetic activity, while he was laying down and transitioning into sleep. These recordings were done by neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Whitmarsh, who then analyzed oscillatory activity in several frequency bands […]
The EEGsynth is going into a busy phase of development and performance thanks to the hard work by the team since 2013 and a grant by Kulturbryggan. Here are a few of the things that will happen in the spring: From Feb 7-11 we will present the EEGsynth as part of the COGITO project at Techart in Rotterdam. We will […]