The EEGsynth
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 […]
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 happy to announce that we have been rewarded a considerable Kulturbryggan grant! With this grant we will develop way’s to fuse musician’s brains, furthering our interdisciplinary research in brain-synthesis. Specifically, we will create ways for people to ‘jam’ together, by connecting their EEG to sound equipment. It will allow anyone with a […]
If you are in Enschede, The Netherlands, this weekend, you can find the EEGsynth at the COGBOT festival for art, music and creative technology (7-10 September). At COGBOT can participate on the COGITO project, watch the amazing movie by Sandro Bocci while your EEG is recorded for interstellar transmission!
For his second solo exhibition at Galleri Fagerstedt in Stockholm, Per Huttner shows a sculpture that uses an EEG-recording of his brain activity under hypnosis. The work is made up of curtain that covers the back wall of the gallery. The curtain is made of the same material as one of the characters in the […]
On March 6th we held progress meeting of the Brain Control Club at CRI. We were happy to be joined by the GameLab and by three students from the interdisciplinary program on education technology who were interested in finding ways to include neuroscience in their exciting projects. The slides of the presentations can be found […]
This weekend, 1+1=3 had the opportunity to meet in Paris and spend a day updating each other and working out our plans for the future. Much has happened lately, and many exciting things will happen next year. First music release due in spring We have done the first EEG recordings of what will become the […]
It is 35 degrees outside, and probably even more in my little south-facing studio. So it is with a overheated brain that I am reading a recent communication by Bart Lutters and Peter J. Koehler in BRAIN, titled: Brainwaves in concert: the 20th century sonification of the electroencephalogram. Luckily it is short and sweet, and […]
For more about our artistic projects using the EEG-synth you can NOW go to our new website. The EEGsynth.org site will continue to be the place for all news and info about the EEGsynth software and hardware development.
We have just arrived in Los Angeles, USA, kicking off our USA tour where we will work and perform together, connect with other artists and academics, give talks, host a session at a conference and reconnect with old friends. First of all, we couldn’t have been able to get it all together with the people […]
I have been looking into TouchOSC as an example application that can send and receive Open Sound Control (OSC) messages. I have installed it on my iPhone 5 and on my iPad 2. Using the inputosc/outputosc modules I can read/write OSC messages with EEGsynth. The only thing that I have not figured out yet is how to broadcast OSC messages. We are […]
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 […]
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 […]
Deleuze and Guattari use the terms “deterritorialisation” and “reterritorialisation” (we know that the terms are annoying to pronounce) frequently in their book “A Thousand Plateaus.” The two writers use “soft” concepts in the book which allow the ideas to change with time and context. For example, a child might have problems with reading and writing, […]
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 […]
Did we mention already that we have been awarded a grant from Innovativ Kultur?
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 […]