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Music Performance

Alpha Xiao in Paris

Last Friday night, EEGsynth and friends gathered for a public performance of Alpha Xiao at Chair de Poule, showcasing their research from the past two weeks. In the heart of the bustling XIe arrondissement, they shared a meditative blend of rhythms and melodies, featuring the Chinese Xiao flute alongside digital sound synthesis. The sounds flowed, […]

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Art

Keep La Generale open!!!!!

La Generale is an amazing cultural centre in the heart of Paris. We have been in residence there and made several performances and concerts in the wonderful and warm ambience of La Generale. It is a water hole in Parisian culture. It is a venue of enormous importance for Paris, for France and for the […]

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Art

EEGsynth in Tunisia

Nour Justinia Hotel, Sousse, Tunisia.Organiser: Elbirou Art Gallery with AllArtNow and Vision ForumCurators: Abir Boukhari & Karim Sghaier In conjunction with the UV biennial, Vision Forum will present an evening with a performances with the Swedish artist Per Huttner and Tunisian artist Amine Melki. The project takes place in a centrally located hotel which is […]

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Art

Perplexities: Sonifications

Welcome to: Sonifications: a one-day festival on Microbes in Art and Science – Lectures, performances, installations – June 18, 2024 @ 15:00 – 21:00 — – ASIL Labs, Krook, Ghent — Discover the sounds of genetically modified microorganisms singing – encounter bacteria that generate their own films and soundtracks in real time – hear and […]

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Art

Nordmark/Huttner on tour in China and Japan

London based composer and musician Tomas Nordmark and Paris based musician and visual artist and musician Per Hüttner have been working together since 2021. Together they develop creative and visionary performances using the technology platform EEGsynth. The EEGsynth is a hard and software platform that allows performers to create sounds and images using neural signals […]

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Art

Transformation III in Sweden

Welcome to join us for two experimental biofeedback concerts. 20h, May 18, 2024 at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan, Sweden The audience is invited to go on a hypnotic journey while they experience the two concerts. Entrance is free. Teatermaskinen, Skräppbo Skola, 73091 Riddarhyttan, info@teatermaskinen.com +460706811481 The project forms a part of Transformation III and is co-funded […]

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Art

The EEGsynth faces a Tribunal

Vision Forum is proud to announce that Alpha Xiao and Zygote  are presenting performances at Tribunalen festival in Stockholm. They will present new work at 6pm and 8.30pm respectively on May 12, 2024. Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group consisting of a portable electroencephalagraph (EEG) modulating designed audio samples  and a traditional Chinese flute called a […]

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Art Hardware Learning Music Performance Software Technology

Steady-State [version for 2] @ La Générale [Transformation III]

La Générale, Paris, France April 29 – May 12th Developments for Transformation III continue with a second 2-week residency for EEGsynth at La Générale, Laboratoire artistique politique et social. During the first days, Samon Takahashi and I developed Steady-State [version for 2] further. We also put efforts into recording several exercises, which we hope will […]

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Art

Transformation III in Sweden

Welcome to join us for two experimental biofeedback concerts: 20h, May 18, 2024 at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan, Sweden The audience is invited to go on a hypnotic journey while they experience the concerts by Ludvig Elblaus and Per Huttner. Entrance is free. Teatermaskinen, Skräppbo Skola, 73091 Riddarhyttan, info@teatermaskinen.com +460706811481 The project forms a part of […]

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Art

Paris is totally Swedish

– Chaire de poule, rue Sain Maure, 75011, Paris– May 10, 2024 -concert starts at 8pm The Swedish-French musical festival, Transformation III organises multiple residencies, public presentations and concerts in France, Belgium and Sweden. It brings together artists from multiple fields, researchers primarily from neuroscience and technology developers from many fields to make music based […]

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Art

Do Trees Dream of CO2 goes to France

– Welcome to join us at Domaine départemental de Chamarande April 26 at 18h/6pm. (We meet at the “Orangerie” or write us on “info (at) visionforum.eu” if you have further questions.) Do Trees Dream of CO2 is a collective Franco-Swedish collaboration. The team has been developing technology and artistic expressions to facilitate interspecies dialogues between […]

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Art

The EEGsynth at Sjöfartsmuseet in Gothenburg

What can be learned from animal communication? How do we understand animals ? Can water be a being? or What can a cod concert sound like? Animals communicate amongst each other. There is also important communication between species. Their communication offer new perspectives on language and a peek into a fascinating non-human world. Experience music based […]

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Art

Transformation III Residency

Vision Forum is organising Transformation III in Paris together with our French partners. To prepare, Swedish musicians are in Paris to develop new music based on biofeedback February 29- March 2. The festival in France will bring together artists from multiple fields, researchers primarily from neuroscience and technology developers from many field. Participants come from […]

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Art

EEGsynth Returns to Mexico

Members of the EEGsynth have been doing research in Mexico City, Oaxaca and Chiapas in December 2023 and January 2024. They have been in residency at El Dia D in Santiago de Queretaro, January 21 – February 12, 2024. During this time they will be working with artists and choreographers from Mexico and Canada and […]

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Dance Music Performance Technology

Café de Paris [Transformation III]

Café de Paris, Paris, France November 12th, 2023 The prologue of Transformation III has started with a series of performances, talks and demonstrations by EEGsynth, with increasing scope in themes, collaborators, experiments and developments. As part of these explorations, Samon organized a set of performances and new collaborations at Café de Paris. A taste of […]

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Art Learning Music Performance Science Technology

Laboratoire artistique politique et social [Transformation III]

La Générale, Paris, France November 1st Developments for Transformation III has begun with a two-week residency at La Générale, the Laboratoire artistique politique et social at Paris. A summary was shown during a public event, with: Thomas Auroux, Ludvig Elblaus, Per Hüttner, Samon Takahashi & Stephen Whitmarsh. The event was live-streamed on p-node radio (thanks Kevin!).

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Art

Hypnotic Sound Journey

Ludvig Elblaus, Per Huttner and Thomas Auroux perform the work together. In the performance Auroux, who is a practising hypnotherapist, hypnotises Huttner. The latter is wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap and Elblaus uses Huttner’s brain activity to make music in real time using specifically developed instruments. After a short theoretical introduction Elblaus makes a 15 […]

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Art Music Performance

Steady-State at La Cube [Transformation III]

Le Cube, Garges-lès-Gonesse, France October 11th, 2023 The prologue of Transformation III has started with a series of performances, talks and demonstrations by EEGsynth, notably during a residency at La Générale, the Laboratoire artistique politique et social in Paris. Two performance were organized at Le Cube, Garges-lès-Gonesse, France. The first one occurred on October 11th, […]

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Art

Island CO2

– Performance in collaboration with Teatermaskinen September 8, 2023 For “Island CO2″ at Teatermaskinen in Sweden’s Bergslagen, Per Huttner and Karine Bonneval take their project “Do Trees Dream of CO2″ to the next level. In the performance they create a platform for communication between trees and humans. As the sun sets, the audience is invited […]

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Art

Animist Journey

Animist Journey is a performance by Per Huttner with Sámi shaman Jonas Engman. It was performed at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan on September 8, 2023. When the performance begins, Engman is already in trance and he wears his shaman attire. He starts singing and playing his drum and embarks on a journey. Under his headgear he […]

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Art

The EEGsynth in Halland

The Swedish-French music collective Circle Squared is in residence at Andersbo. On August 26, 2023, 14.00- 17.00 they will present two concerts at Unnaryds Kyrka.They will present a new performance: Per Huttner will be hypnotized by the French hypnotherapist Thomas Auroux. Per’s brain activity is measured in real time with electroencephalography (EEG,) his muscle activity […]

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Art Hardware Music Performance Pure Data Software Technology

Improtech Uzeste festival

August 11-13, Uzeste, France Originally Created by Gérard Assayag (IRCAM) and Marc Chemillier (EHESS), Improtech is both a musical festival and an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together actors of research and creation from all over the world around the question of musical improvisation in interaction with digital intelligences, in an assumed approach of human-machine co-creativity. […]

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Art

The EEGsynth (almost) in Iran

In May 2022 Per Huttner was invited by French-Iranian artist Ghazel to present his work. He made a one hour online presentation about his artistic practice and his work with the EEGsynth for the Tehran summit. He draws from a text by Vaclav Havel called that he wrote in 1978. He explains that power structures […]

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Art

Microbes and EEGsynth in Ghent

A previously unknown world of microbes is being revealed by current discoveries in many different fields. What is discovered drastically changes the way we understand ourselves. Naturally questions arise: How can these tiny creatures inform our lives? Where do we encounter them? How can we live in symbiosis? An international group of artists, thinkers and […]

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Art Learning Music Performance Pure Data Science Technology

Journées d’Informatique Musicale

24/06/2023 – 26/06/2023 MSH Paris Nord, Saint-Denis, France Don’t miss this year’s Journées d’Informatique Musicale! I am excited, as we will be performing several new pieces, integrating EEG and EMG, and will be able to do so in the auditorium of MSH Paris Nord, which sports a full ambisonic setup. This year, I want to […]

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Art Learning Science Technology

ISEA2023 SYMBIOSIS

20/05/2023 Forum des images, Paris, France We were selected to publish our ANR-funded Brain Body Digital Music Instrument (BBDMI) project as part of this year’s International Conference on Electronic Art (ISEA). I presented our collaborative work in front of an international audience, both in person and online streaming. The recordings of all presentation can be […]

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Learning Music Performance Science Technology

Semaine du Cerveau

18/03/2023 Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France During this year’s international Week of the Brain (Semaine du Cerveau), we presented our BBDMI project at the Paris Brain Institute, and conducted workshops with the the audience throughout the day, together with several other fun events surround the topic of brain research. The event was a great success, […]

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Art

“Do Trees Dream of CO2″ in Vaasa

“Do Trees Dream of CO2″ will present their work at Kuntsi Art Museum in Vaasa, May 27 at 2pm. The event offers an opportunity to look into the technical, scientific and artistic developments that the projects make. You are also invited to participate in a practical demonstration where you can try to “dialogue with a […]

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Art

Alpha Xiao in Stockholm

– Alpha Xiao plays live at Hökarängens antikvariat 19.30 on May 20 (doors open at 18.30). Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group consisting of a portable electroencephalagraph (EEG) modulating designed audio samples (Per Huttner) and a traditional Chinese flute called a Xiao (Will Stafford). The two person constellation  focuses musically on connectivity through rough sketches […]

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Art

The EEGsynth i Tunisia

Per Huttner will perform Mira Miraculous for the opening of “You Are not A Guest.” The exhibition and program is curated by Abir Boukhari. The exhibition is presented at Elbirou Gallery in Sousse. The opening starts April 17, 2023 at 18h and the performance at 21h. Everyone is welcome and entrance is free. Mira Miraculous […]