The EEGsynth
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, […]
The Association for the Palliative Turn (APT) is a project initiated by Olav Westphalen. It is an open platform for artists to make work around the palliative turn. Over the summer APT has been hosted by Künstlerhaus Bremen. The project in Bremen brings together contributions from artists, designers, a kinesiologist, a philosopher, a comedian, a […]
Artists and filmmakers Per Huttner, Van Che and Fabien Guillermont will create an interdisciplinary film workshop at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan September 5-11, 2022. The workshop will lead to the production of a documentary film. During the workshop seven people will live and make short film sequences based on the dreams that they dream during the […]
Vision Forum and our project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” are hosted by the amazing Secret Hotel and Earthwise outside Aarhus for a workshop August 19-25, 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 exchanges. […]
The musical collective LPJ-L which uses the EEGsynth to produce new and exciting music has started developing new material for a series of concerts in spring 2023. Parallel to that they prepare a series of album releases. In preparation for both, members of the collective will meet in Copenhagen August 26-28 and November 30 to […]
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 […]
The EEGsynth team is proud to announce that we will present “Ghetto Gucci” at documenta fifteen June 17, 18 and 19 with Atis Resizstans/Ghetto Biennial at St. Kunigundis, Leipziper str. 145, Kassel. The performance will start at 19h June 17 and 20h June 18 and 19. Background to the piece: During the 6th Ghetto Biennial […]
Vision Forum is proud to announce the third incarnation of Governing Bodies. It includes several EEGsynth events and previous collaborators like Professor Veikko Jousmäko. The project has previously appeared on Zoom, in Östersund and in Copenhagen. The session in Finland is co-organised with The Bioart Society and takes place June 1-5, 2022. Together the two […]
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. […]
The EEGsynth collaborates with Norwegian biologists, Norwegian musicians and Dutch researchers to develop performances that are created to be presented to both humans and cod fish. In the project we use high-quality recordings of cod fish’s mating sounds and turn them into aesthetically interesting music. We also let the cod’s movement patterns control sound, light […]
1+1=3 will perform at 3031 Art Fest in Cairo, March 12 at 7.30pm. The Festival takes place at the epic Darb 1718 art centre. They will perform “Neu Oscillations,” a one hour long piece conceived by the group during Nordic workshops organised and carried out by Vision Forum in Sweden and Denmark 2019-2021. The piece […]
The EEGsynth team offers members of the public the opportunity try their music platform to make sounds with their brain activity. The workshop takes place at at Darb1718 and forms an integrated part of the 3031 Art Fest. During the workshop visitors will use electroencephalogram to influence sounds. Three people at the time can use the […]
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, […]
Vision Forum together with their partners, Out of the Circle (Egypt), H2 (Morocco) and AllArtNow (Syria) are proud to announce the public program for Local Role Models in Cairo January 6. In “Local Role Models” performances and workshops will become catalysts to spread positive ideas, stories and unique life journeys from the MENA region. The […]
On December 12, 2021, Per Huttner will present a performative lecture at Index in Stockholm. The presentation takes its starting point in Pauline Curnier Jardin’s work and her exhibition entitled “Waiting for Agatha, Sebastian and all the Other Holy Children.” The goal of the event is to support her in the making of her future […]
Per Huttner will perform “Surgery and Ontology” within the framework of “An Infinite Love” in Paris on November 27. The performance constitutes a journey backwards in Time. The artist and audience together dwell on questions about life and death and how western conceptions about the difference between subjects and objects influence our understanding of the […]
Circle Squared is a project that sets out to build further on the hardware and software development of the biofeedback platform “the EEGsynth.” The current project will strengthen the aesthetic and artistic potential of the EEGsynth. The goal is to develop technology that can be used by performers to create work where sound, moving images […]
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 […]
On Saturday August 21, Swedish artist Per Huttner will be performing “Duet with a Dying Plant” at Brandenburger Kunstverein in Potsdam. The performance is a musical improvisation where the artist and a dying plant make sounds together. This is achieved by putting electrodes on the plant and on the artist’s skull. These generate real time […]
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 […]
With Vision Forum the EEGsynth team is creating performances for sleeping audiences in a project called “Delta.” We are interested how art can become a part of enriching the third of our lives that we spend asleep. The starting point can be found in the fact that some people have very rich nocturnal lives, while […]