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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Per Huttner makes a performative lecture with the online platform The Teheran Summit on May 19, 18.00 CET using the EEGsynth. In the talk he will first make a short demonstration of the EEGsynth. It is a technology platform that him and others in the VF team use to make performances with the help of […]
We are proud to announce that “LPJ-L” will perform at “Vetenskapsfestivalen” (The Science Festival) in Gothenburg 7pm May 7. The concert is open to the public at free of charge (Göteborgs universitet, Humanisten, Trappscenen, Renströmsgatan 6, 412 55 Göteborg). More practical details here. The group which has been playing under different monikers (e.g. 1+1=3 and […]
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 […]
We are happy to announce the relaunch of the first project that was cancelled due to the Covid-19 situation. We were meant to meet in Copenhagen April 15-20. Now Nordic musicians and composers will meet in Stockholm, since travel restrictions make it hard to organise workshops anywhere else. We are generously hosted at Kungliga Tekniska […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]