The EEGsynth
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 […]
Per Huttner is using our EEG technology in order to create performances for sleeping audiences. The new project is called “Delta” and many members of the EEGsynth team are part of developing it. We are interested how art can become a part of enriching the third of our lives that we spend asleep. We start […]
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. […]
The EEGsynth team is proud to announce that Per Huttner will contribute to a night of performances and talks at Igreja do Espírito Santo in Caldas de Rainha in Portugal. The program focuses on how the human body’s constitution influences our understanding of the world. Together artists and researchers look at both at how music, […]
1+1=3 participates in “2084″ in Helsiniki. 2084 is an exhibition that takes place in the present and speculates on the role power will play in the future. We participate in the performance events that accompany the exhibition and that will be hosted in the gallery October 10 and 13. Per Huttner will make a solo […]
1+1=3 featuring Atau Tanaka will participate in Helicotrema – Recorded Audio Festival. The presented piece entitled “Monitorn” is the outcome from the ongoing preparations for Transformation III in Paris. The festival started in 2012, the festival is a non-profit platform for the promotion of narrative and multidisciplinary sound works – such as radio plays, audio documentaries, experimental […]
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 […]
Sunday May 3 / P-Node day 50Transformation II [online]Live BCI, neuro-feedback and musicCurated by 1+1=3 & ∏Node for Antivirus Look here for Transformation Part I Program 17:00 – 18:00 – Introduction by Samon Takahashi, followed by “Histoire du bio-feedback appliqué à la musique” voiced by Claudia Squitieri [Live, FR] 18:00 – 19:00 – “The brain during seizures, […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are proud to announce that the program for Transformation in Stockholm is online! Join us for concerts, talks and lots of fun at R1 Reaktorhallen and Trädgården May 30-June 1. Transformation takes its starting point in the EEGsynth technology and centers on transformations between music ↔ body, brain ↔ body, sound ↔ music, triggers […]
Come and experience contemporary Brainwave Music – an art form that connects music and neuroscience. Welcome to the Kulturhuset Fyren and an afternoon concert in the concert hall Snäckan. The concert is free and everyone is welcome! Kulturhuset Fyren, Borgmästaregatan 6, 434 32 Kungsbacka, Sweden. Saturday, 23 March 2019 from 13:30-14:30 For the event, 1 […]
We are very proud to announce the launch of the new 1+1=3 website. It has been created by Stephen Whitmarsh with amazing graphics by Camille Degardin. The site uses a new logic where the performances are broken down to a few permutations that separated thematically. The schematics constitute simplifications of how the performers interact according […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]