BRAINWAVE MUSIC
30 years of experience with electronic music production, computer programming, and meditation have combined into a musical neurofeedback experience that enables users to hear their brain activity in real-time.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
We collaborated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an installation called "Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” We developed an iPad app to connect to Enophone brainwave sensing headphones so that visitors coming to the exhibit could hear their live brainwaves as they looked at the Buddhist mandalas. Their stress was sonified as ocean waves, and if they could relax down into a contemplative or meditative state, they would hear beautiful pure tones created by digitizing the mandala images themselves.
Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum
"Pulses," presented at the Sound Scene Festival at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., used Muse biometric headbands to turn participants' meditative brainwaves into a shared musical composition. Each participant contributed unique notes, while their averaged heart rates created a bass beat. I manipulated sound textures in real-time, creating an intimate connection through the technology. Participants described the experience as transcendent and deeply moving.
Public Space One
"Pulses," initially developed with support from an Iowa Arts Council grant, premiered at Public Space One in Iowa City. Eight participants generated music through their brain states, with blue lights providing visual feedback as they entered meditative states, offering a multisensory exploration of group synchronization and meditation.
Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai
We collaborated with dArt NYC on an installation for Maxi Cohen's Poetry of Water show at Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai. Using a Muse brainwave sensor embedded in a Meta Quest 3 VR headset, visitors could influence mixed reality water elements with their mental states. Active minds moved water particles to string music, while calm minds formed a cohesive sphere with meditative tones, revealing new ways to experience consciousness.
From Our Minds to Yours
"From Our Minds to Yours" was a series of public art performances exploring what happens when multiple minds combine to make music through an EEG music system. The project included a student-led program at Iowa BIG schools, a performance in Iowa City Downtown District's "Sprites" alleyway, and a theater performance exploring how eye contact and touch promote synchrony between brains.
NYU Interactive Media Arts Thesis
Highlights of three of Jason Snell's thesis performances, including biofeedback soundbaths at the 50-speaker Audio Lab at NYU in Brooklyn and the VR Studio at NYU Shanghai, and a noise feedback performance at the Visual Studio at NYU Shanghai. These performances exemplify the sound design and musical neurofeedback research and development done at NYU in 2023.
Cymatic Telekinesis
Physical prototype where the mind can control the shape of water. Using an EEG headband, the activity of the mind is transformed into a low frequency sound that vibrates a dish filled with water, changing its form. When the mind is active, the water moves in cymatic patterns. When the mind is quiet, the water becomes still.
Brainwave Techno
Performance for Intelliphunk's "Distant Future" series, brainwaves are projected on bare skin and a live heartbeat is pulsing the visual display. Similar to audio sidechaining, the heartbeat is sidechaining the brainwave output. The color of the waves relfects the brain's overall state: red stimulation, blue meditation, purple dreaminess, and white concentration.
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BETA PROTOTYPES
We are currently delivering beta prototype builds to people interested in using our technology.