The EEGsynth
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 […]
In the second installment of the Untitled Biofeedback Project Nordic musicians and composers will meet in Copenhagen July 8-12. The project builds further on the hardware and software development of the biofeedback platform “the EEGsynth.” Members of the network have been involved in the team of developers since its inception 2014 and the first meeting […]
The duo Alpha Xiao which uses our brain-interface and live flute modulated by brain activities participated in the project An Infinite Love at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm. During two days visual artists, surgeons and thinkers organised guided tours in and around Konstnärshuset in Stockholm. The walk ended with Alpha Xiao playing a live piece. Alpha-Xiao · […]
We are proud to announce that Italian Radio “Firefly Frequencies” dedicate the first episode of their series “An Archive of Dreams” to the project “Delta.” In Delta a group artists and neuroscientists develop performances for sleeping audiences. Participants from multiple European countries together develop technology and content to enrich the nocturnal lives of dreamers and […]
The EEGsynth has, since its birth in Sao Paulo, always been an international affair. We have presented our work and made performances in Europe, North and South America. Sadly the planned tour of China, Korea and Japan had to be postponed due to the current situation with Covid-19. To make up for lost opportunities, we […]
1+1=3 has been planning to record an album since 2017 and it has never happened for many different reasons. Most recently, a session was planned in April 2020, but was postponed because of the situation with Covid-19. We are therefore very pleased to have spent four days in Copenhagen in Huhta Home Studio totally focused […]
Per Huttner is using our EEG technology in order to create performances for sleeping audiences. The new project is called “Delta” and many members of the EEGsynth team are part of developing it. We are interested how art can become a part of enriching the third of our lives that we spend asleep. We start […]
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. […]
The EEGsynth team is proud to announce that Per Huttner will contribute to a night of performances and talks at Igreja do Espírito Santo in Caldas de Rainha in Portugal. The program focuses on how the human body’s constitution influences our understanding of the world. Together artists and researchers look at both at how music, […]
1+1=3 participates in “2084″ in Helsiniki. 2084 is an exhibition that takes place in the present and speculates on the role power will play in the future. We participate in the performance events that accompany the exhibition and that will be hosted in the gallery October 10 and 13. Per Huttner will make a solo […]
1+1=3 featuring Atau Tanaka will participate in Helicotrema – Recorded Audio Festival. The presented piece entitled “Monitorn” is the outcome from the ongoing preparations for Transformation III in Paris. The festival started in 2012, the festival is a non-profit platform for the promotion of narrative and multidisciplinary sound works – such as radio plays, audio documentaries, experimental […]
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, […]
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 […]
In the end of May 2019, 1+1=3 organised the festival “Transformation.” It was a 3-day bonanza of lectures and performances that celebrated the logic and madness of the human brain and body when it creates music using naturally occurring signals in the body. During the marvelous events, modular synth geeks, cult brainwave-musicians, neuroscientists, neuro-psychologists and […]
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 […]