The EEGsynth
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
– 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 […]
– 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
– 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
– 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 […]
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 […]
Vision Forum and the project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” are hosted by Earthwise in Bogens outside Aarhus for a workshop April 11-14, 2022. During these intense working days, artists will together investigate what happens to trees and humans at night and if the two can find a platform for nocturnal exchange using the EEGsynth. […]
The EEGsynth team is working together with French hypnotherapist Thomas Auroux throughout spring and summer 2023. Together they investigate how music and sound can be generated under hypnosis as well as how the EEGsynth can aid in this process. The investigations using both EEG and EMG will lead to the creation of a new performance […]
The EEGsynth project Cod-spawning and Music will be at demo-stage at Tekniska museet in Stockholm February 11-12, 20023. In the project we use recordings of the cods’ mating sounds to make contemporary music. We also use humans’ nerve-signals to modulate the sound. The long term goal is to use real time data from cod and […]
Welcome to an evening of performances and talks at Galeria Liberdad in Santiago de Queretaro in collaboration with El Dia D on Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7pm (free entrance). We present a new performance by the EEGsynth collective. For the performance we collaborate with the Canadian choreographer Benoît Lachambre who has deeply interesting ways […]
The musical collective LPJ-L which uses the EEGsynth to produce new and exciting technology and new musical material for an album that will be released by Vision Forum and our Danish partners in spring 2023. The group will meet and work at Huhta Home Studios in Copenhagen November 30 December 4. The new technology comprises […]
We are proud that Swedish National Radio’s “Elektroniskt” devote a large chunk of their 2h broadcast to our project LPJ-L and how they use brainwaves to make music. The interviews are in Swedish, but the music is of course in “Esperanto.” You find the whole show and/or the interviews in the link above. (https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/elektroniskt-i-p2-hjarna-och-psykologi) It is […]
The members of our project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” are meeting in Paris November 25-26 for a workshop to prepare for future performances. During these working days, artists will together investigate what happens to trees and humans at night and if the two can find a platform for nocturnal exchanges. The will look at […]
The musical and performance collective that uses the EEGsynth to produce new and exciting work has started working with new technology. In preparation for for future performances members of the collective will meet in Stockholm November 8-14 to figure out how the new technology can be used in the best of ways. They are working […]
In spring 2019 the EEGsynth crew and Vision Forum organised a 4-day event in Stockholm called Transformation. It investigated how bodily signals from muscle and brain as well as audience movements can be further used in musical and performative creation. The event was greatly appreciated by audience, participants and the media. During the festival composers, […]