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 […]
EEGsynth Returns to Mexico
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!).
Hypnotic Sound Journey
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, […]
Island CO2
– 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
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 EEGsynth in Halland
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. […]
The EEGsynth (almost) in Iran
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 […]
Microbes and EEGsynth in Ghent
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 […]
24/06/2023 – 26/06/2023 MSH Paris Nord, Saint-Denis, France Don’t miss this year’s Journées d’Informatique Musicale! I am excited, as we will be performing several new pieces, integrating EEG and EMG, and will be able to do so in the auditorium of MSH Paris Nord, which sports a full ambisonic setup. This year, I want to […]
ISEA2023 SYMBIOSIS
20/05/2023 Forum des images, Paris, France We were selected to publish our ANR-funded Brain Body Digital Music Instrument (BBDMI) project as part of this year’s International Conference on Electronic Art (ISEA). I presented our collaborative work in front of an international audience, both in person and online streaming. The recordings of all presentation can be […]
Semaine du Cerveau
18/03/2023 Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France During this year’s international Week of the Brain (Semaine du Cerveau), we presented our BBDMI project at the Paris Brain Institute, and conducted workshops with the the audience throughout the day, together with several other fun events surround the topic of brain research. The event was a great success, […]
“Do Trees Dream of CO2″ in Vaasa
“Do Trees Dream of CO2″ will present their work at Kuntsi Art Museum in Vaasa, May 27 at 2pm. The event offers an opportunity to look into the technical, scientific and artistic developments that the projects make. You are also invited to participate in a practical demonstration where you can try to “dialogue with a […]
Alpha Xiao in Stockholm
– Alpha Xiao plays live at Hökarängens antikvariat 19.30 on May 20 (doors open at 18.30). Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group consisting of a portable electroencephalagraph (EEG) modulating designed audio samples (Per Huttner) and a traditional Chinese flute called a Xiao (Will Stafford). The two person constellation focuses musically on connectivity through rough sketches […]
The EEGsynth i Tunisia
Per Huttner will perform Mira Miraculous for the opening of “You Are not A Guest.” The exhibition and program is curated by Abir Boukhari. The exhibition is presented at Elbirou Gallery in Sousse. The opening starts April 17, 2023 at 18h and the performance at 21h. Everyone is welcome and entrance is free. Mira Miraculous […]
More CO2 in Denmark
Vision Forum and the project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” are hosted by Earthwise in Bogens outside Aarhus for a workshop April 11-14, 2022. During these intense working days, artists will together investigate what happens to trees and humans at night and if the two can find a platform for nocturnal exchange using the EEGsynth. […]
The Return of Hypnosis
The EEGsynth team is working together with French hypnotherapist Thomas Auroux throughout spring and summer 2023. Together they investigate how music and sound can be generated under hypnosis as well as how the EEGsynth can aid in this process. The investigations using both EEG and EMG will lead to the creation of a new performance […]
Fish and EEG in Stockholm
The EEGsynth project Cod-spawning and Music will be at demo-stage at Tekniska museet in Stockholm February 11-12, 20023. In the project we use recordings of the cods’ mating sounds to make contemporary music. We also use humans’ nerve-signals to modulate the sound. The long term goal is to use real time data from cod and […]
The EEGsynth returns to Mexico
Welcome to an evening of performances and talks at Galeria Liberdad in Santiago de Queretaro in collaboration with El Dia D on Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7pm (free entrance). We present a new performance by the EEGsynth collective. For the performance we collaborate with the Canadian choreographer Benoît Lachambre who has deeply interesting ways […]
LPJ-L returns to Copenhagen
The musical collective LPJ-L which uses the EEGsynth to produce new and exciting technology and new musical material for an album that will be released by Vision Forum and our Danish partners in spring 2023. The group will meet and work at Huhta Home Studios in Copenhagen November 30 December 4. The new technology comprises […]
We are proud that Swedish National Radio’s “Elektroniskt” devote a large chunk of their 2h broadcast to our project LPJ-L and how they use brainwaves to make music. The interviews are in Swedish, but the music is of course in “Esperanto.” You find the whole show and/or the interviews in the link above. (https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/elektroniskt-i-p2-hjarna-och-psykologi) It is […]
Do Trees Dream of CO2 in Paris
The members of our project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” are meeting in Paris November 25-26 for a workshop to prepare for future performances. During these working days, artists will together investigate what happens to trees and humans at night and if the two can find a platform for nocturnal exchanges. The will look at […]
More Technology Development in the North
The musical and performance collective that uses the EEGsynth to produce new and exciting work has started working with new technology. In preparation for for future performances members of the collective will meet in Stockholm November 8-14 to figure out how the new technology can be used in the best of ways. They are working […]
European Heritage Days
On Septembre 17th, the ANR funded BBDMI project opened their doors to its laboratory at MSH Paris Nord, as part of the European Heritage days. We were able to showcase our latest developments, and we did so with an ambitious setup: In sessions of about a dozen people each, we allowed guests to measure their […]
Transformation III
In spring 2019 the EEGsynth crew and Vision Forum organised a 4-day event in Stockholm called Transformation. It investigated how bodily signals from muscle and brain as well as audience movements can be further used in musical and performative creation. The event was greatly appreciated by audience, participants and the media. During the festival composers, […]
EEGsynth in Bremen
The Association for the Palliative Turn (APT) is a project initiated by Olav Westphalen. It is an open platform for artists to make work around the palliative turn. Over the summer APT has been hosted by Künstlerhaus Bremen. The project in Bremen brings together contributions from artists, designers, a kinesiologist, a philosopher, a comedian, a […]
Dreams Become Film and Music
Artists and filmmakers Per Huttner, Van Che and Fabien Guillermont will create an interdisciplinary film workshop at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan September 5-11, 2022. The workshop will lead to the production of a documentary film. During the workshop seven people will live and make short film sequences based on the dreams that they dream during the […]