The EEGsynth
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 […]
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:
12th of January, 2019 at 8pm Kunstkapel, BeatrixparkPrinses Irenestraat 19-1 hoog1077 WT Amsterdam Robert, Daniela de Paulis and several sound artists returned to the Kunstkapel to spend another evening exploring new and developing concepts, music and technology, within the ever-widening collaboration between Cogito in Space and the EEGsynth. The performance included projections of segments of […]
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 […]
Check out our friends Daniela de Paulis (COGITO in space) and Robert Oostenveld (EEGsynth) this Saturday, December 1 at 20:00 in the Kunstkapel in Amsterdam. As part of a performative audio-visual-spatial (space) exploration, they will use the EEGsynth to sonify brain activity together with other live musicians and performers. The resemblance of the interior of […]
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 […]
Last week Per stayed over at EEGsynth HQ, and we took the opportunity to set him up and do some EEGsynth’ing. Using a new Zoom H6, we were able to nicely record the synth, together with a microphone that picked up Per’s egg shakers. Last time we played the EEGsynth we discovered that shaking those […]
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, […]
Walking to the cabin of the radio telescope, under an especially star-filled sky, Michael and Jan point out to me their favorite constellations. Its the night before the big event, cold and bright. We would need a beach-chair for serious star gazing though, as our necks have started hurting from looking up all the time. […]
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 […]
For the occasion of the CuttingEEG conference at Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital), the art-science collective 1+1=3 created a special exhibition at the Charcot Library in which visitors could explore the aesthetic qualities of early scientific research in electrical (brain) activity. Books and illustrations were drawn from the personal library […]
We were very happy to work together with old and new friends on an avant-garde interdisciplinary art-science-food event: The Brain Brunch. It’s really hard to explain in words, but hopefully this video below will give you an impression.