The EEGsynth
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!).
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
Virtual Fieldwork @ University of Leicester, BA, BSc Creative Computing Today the COGITO team met virtually in Leicester to present our work as part of Balandino Di Donato’s course on creative computing. It was an opportunity of me to revisit the artistic history and context of the work we do with 1+1=3 using the EEGsynth. […]
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 […]
Today I went back to the soldering iron and finished a second Electrosluch. I had bought material for two, just in case I would screw up the first, but surprisingly I didn’t, so instead could try out some small improvements. This time I added an IC socket, so I can try our different opamps in […]
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 […]
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:
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 […]
We are proud to announce a set of 1+1=3 performances in Sweden in spring 2019. The first performance takes place at Folkteatern in Gothenburg February 2. You can book your ticket here or here. The performance is divided into two parts and uses new technology and new concepts. Another performance will take place at Kulturhuset […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are very excited to meet other EEG hackers at BrainHack, Paris, February 24-26. Here are the outlines of our 5 minute scientific and artistic pitch: EEGsynth: scientific and development pitch Stephen Whitmarsh & Robert Oostenveld (presenters), Per Huttner & Jean-Louis Huhta We are very happy to be able to present to you the EEGsynth […]
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 […]