The EEGsynth
On the evening of October 15, 1+1=3 performed together with Carima Neusser for a small invited audience at Jean-Louis’ studio. Those who have followed the blog will know that for some time we have been developing the possibilities of the EEGsynth to use muscle activity as a control signal for sound synthesis. This was our […]
We had our first EEG-Synthesizer jam with a smoothly working setup! Quite a milestone! In the following video and SoundCloud recordings (removed), you hear several interesting and evocative synthesizer patches created by Jean-Louis that are fully controlled in real-time by the EMG signals from my hand and arm. So in fact, during the recordings Jean-Louis was […]
I recorded a short demonstration of the EEGsynth using real-time recordings of heartbeat (ECG), muscle activity (EMG) and eyeblinks (EOG). Ofcourse the brain is just as possible, but harder to demonstrate on my own. Importantly, we can use any MIDI controller to change parameters in real-time, and use MIDI as a control signal for any […]
With: Jean-Louis Huhta, Stephen Whitmarsh and Per Hüttner August 19 Jean-Louis and Stephen arrive at midnight. Nocturnal swim and discussions about the individual work carried out in preparation for the workshop and what is expected of the days to come and how we can best reach these goals. August 20 Breakfast meeting and planning of […]
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 […]
In France we tried to reproduce neuronal functions with the synthesiser and listened to the outcome. This was great fun and Stephen is a really talented supervisor. Since my thesis is on hemispheric specialization I choose one theory which tries to explain differences in hemispheric processing by splitting incomming signals into relative frequency bands. I […]
Did we mention already that we have been awarded a grant from Innovativ Kultur?
This week I co-organized a research retreat at a beautiful French chateau, for Christian Kell’s wonderful group (department of neurology of the Frankfurt University hospital). During the Saturday-night workshop I presented our project and explained and demonstrated some principles of sounds synthesis. We then set to work to create synthesizer patches that simulated neuronal mechanisms of cognitive processes. […]
Last night I talked for hours with my dear friend David Holmes – a true thinker and inventor, expert in music and meditation, and uniquely talented writer (see his wonderful book on the mind, brain and its intimate relationship to sound and light). It was a crash course on harmonics, timbre, resonance, overtones and the […]
Robert has been busy programming the first MATLAB-MIDI interface, in both directions. You can find the code on the Github repository. Here you can see him playing his MIDI piano using the MATLAB GUI that he made. And here the MIDI piano is played, displayed on the MATLAB GUI.
On February the 7th, 2015, as the final party following Ouunpo‘s Art-Science festival called The Fugue, Jean-Louis Huhtna performed at the nightclub Södra Bar of Södra Teatern, Stockholm. He started his set by mesmerizing the audience playing sounds created from his brain waves.
SP Escola de Teotro, Sao Paulo, Brazil Per Hüttner, Stephen Whitmarsh and Jean-Louis Huhta joined forces with Brazilian actress Teresa de Almeida Prado and Portuguese actor Pedro Penim to revisit at Samuel Beckett’s last play “What Where.” The session took place in Sao Paulo in November 2014 and was divided into two sections. The first was devoted to recording […]