The EEGsynth
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!).
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
On Septembre 17th, the ANR funded BBDMI project opened their doors to its laboratory at MSH Paris Nord, as part of the European Heritage days. We were able to showcase our latest developments, and we did so with an ambitious setup: In sessions of about a dozen people each, we allowed guests to measure their […]
ICL conference website Atau Tanaka and I presented our work on EMG-EEG hybridization for Brain-Body Digital Music Instrument (BBDMI) during this year’s ICLI 2022, on June 20th – 23rd, 2022. It was a blast! The presentations and performances explored digital art, computation and their relationship to human thought, experience and art. The conference was a hybrid […]
Back around 2010 we first explored open-hardware EEG for some fun, creative uses of real-time EEG analyses and control. At the time, there was not much around in terms of affordable EEG hardware or even real-time EEG analyses software. At the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Nijmegen (NL), Robert was setting up the first […]
June 20th – 23rd, 2022 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e TecnologiasCampo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa Atau Tanaka and I will be presenting our work on EMG-EEG hybridization for Brain-Body Digital Music Instrument (BBDMI) during this year’s ICLI 2022, on June 20th – 23rd. We hope you will join us! Attendance is free, both remote and at […]
As part of her seminar Human-Computer Partnerships at the Collège de France, Professor Wendy Mackay invited Atau Tanaka to about his work and views on human-computer interaction in music creation. Prof. Mackay introduced the day by positioning artificial intelligence in human computer partnerships. She emphasized her user-centered perspective, in which many aspects of implementation (e.g. […]
With the EEGsynth setup now running with the Mentalab Explore, we couldn’t wait to try out the magnificent facilities at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) Paris Nord, and start using the EEGsynth in their research of ambisonic diffusion. It is just the beginning, but were started exploring a patch to control the position and […]
Paris HQ 2.0 The EEGsynth HQ in Paris has gotten quite a facelift during the COVID-19 times: cork panels on the wall for aesthetics and sound diffusion, a new desk, and a couch for visitors and listening. The center-piece is a large wooden DIY Eurorack case by Ginkosynthese, in which I installed two Doepfer PSU3s […]
Musicians, artists, scientists and everyone in between: we have amazing news! The Body Brain Digital Music Instruments (BBDMI) project, led by MSH Paris Nord, has won a prestigious ANR grant. The partners include: MSH Paris Nord: Anne Sèdes (Coordinator) & Atau Tanaka Paris 8 University’s CICM/MUSIDANSE: Alain Bonardi & David Fierro Sorbonne University, Salpêtrière Hospital, […]
On September 17th, Samon and I gave a performative online presentation at the DNArchi conference titled «Conception & Emotion, Physiology, neurocognition» for which we re-activated a dormant artistic research project that Samon started in 1999: The Neurhome. It consists of an imagined future, in which our habitation is able to anticipate and act on all […]
St. Joost Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Breda, Netherlands. Daniela de Paulis and I were invited to present an (online) workshop for the St. Joost Academy for Art and Design on March 5th, 2021. Daniela was invited to speak on the topic of collaboration, as her work is examplary of complex interdisciplinary collaboration. As a […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]