Listen to: Sleep Algorythm, a solo performance by Jean-Louis Huhta

At the finissage for the exhibition “Inget att se här!”, Jean-Louis Huhta presented magnetoencephalography recordings that were made using 306 sensors that picked up his brain’s magnetic activity, while he was laying down and transitioning into sleep. These recordings were done by neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Whitmarsh, who then analyzed oscillatory activity in several frequency bands (theta, alpha and beta), reflecting shifts in Huhtas focus, attention and relaxation. Jean-Louis used our open-source software and hardware (www.EEGsynth.org) to transform these fluctuations of brain activity into control voltages, which he used to control his modular synthesizer. The event was hosted by Köttinspektionen. You can listen to his performance here: