The EEGsynth
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, […]
Finally, after a month of waiting for the mail due to Covid-19 restrictions, my Bela arrived. I was made aware of this project by Robert, who has already started experimenting with the Bela. The Bela is a cape (what would be known as a ‘Shield’ in the Arduino world), that expands the BeagleBone Black (a […]
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 […]
Today I continued on the Harmonics patch. As I said in yesterday’s post, the switching of the mapping between brain harmonics and sound harmonics, still created audible clicks. This is totally to be expected, but still something that had to be dealt with because it just doesn’t sound good in an analog ambient patch. To […]
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 […]
In the end of May 2019, 1+1=3 organised the festival “Transformation.” It was a 3-day bonanza of lectures and performances that celebrated the logic and madness of the human brain and body when it creates music using naturally occurring signals in the body. During the marvelous events, modular synth geeks, cult brainwave-musicians, neuroscientists, neuro-psychologists and […]
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 […]
Welcome to the 9th edition of the Day of Science and Music (Journée Science et Musique) that takes place October 19 in Diapason (campus de Beaulieu) Rennes. You can join Samon Takahashi and Stephen Whitmarsh to experience the EEGsynth and make music with your brainwaves. The set up is called Symbiotics and you can discover […]
Akusmata proudly presents: EEGsynth & Body Music demonstration by Oneplusoneisthree (1+1=3) and guests Sat 28.9.2019 at 20:00 – 21:00 AkusmataTukholmankatu 7 K, 00270 Helsinki1+1=3 is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.
We warmly invite you to join us in Espoo for Andouillette, a unique audio-visual performance by international art-science collective 1+1=3, created especially for the Finnish conference on Clinical Neurophysiology. In Andouillette, brain and body signals, e.g. EEG & iEMG, will be connected to modular synthesizers and video projections, creating musical audio-visual neurofeedback loops and deep listening […]
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 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 […]
Per Hüttner and friends at Gallery Ekdahl May 23-25, 2019 Within the framework of “Per Hüttner and Friends” at Gallery Ekdahl in Karlstad, Sweden May 23-26, 1 + 1 = 3 will present AnAtomic with Per Huttner and Jean-Louis Huhta. In the performance which will take place at 4pm on May 26, we measure Per’s […]
In preparation for the upcoming events in Stockholm, Karlstad, Espoo and Helsinki, 1+1=3 will undertake a residency at Huhta Home Studios in Copenhagen May 15-19. The residency will offer the opportunity to further refine the EEGsynth technology that the collective have been developing since 2014. During the workshops the participating musicians and artists will interact […]
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
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 […]
The following is a copy from my blog. The OpenBCI Cyton and Ganglion boards are open hardware and maker-friendly biosensing systems. Although there are alternatives, such as Bitalino and OpenEEG and some companies and/or projects are currently working on new hardware (see e.g. EEG.io), the OpenBCI boards are in my opinion at this moment still […]
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 […]