One of the best parts of being a new media artist is having the ability to connect so many different ideas and tools together, both literally and figuratively. Recently we've been in touch with Luciana Haill and Sam Wiehl who shared with us some of the details behind their latest collaboration PZYK SKAN which brings together so many amazing things into a single project that we had to share it with all of you. The initial description was “I use PandoraStar strobe lights as precursors for EEG brainwave projects, where signals from the brain of the audience are triggers to live events via Max Msp, Ableton, OSC and recently VDMX when we collaborated” and you can read all about it below!
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Each guest sits with their eyes closed in front of 'PandoraStar' strobe lamp in the new commissioned 'PZYK SKAN' and are connected to the portable brainwave monitor for realtime AV output to the audience watching and waiting for a turn. This work is in involving realtime VDMX output dual screen visuals using the EEG signal for immersive interaction from the 'IBVA Brainmachine' providing in the smaller LCD the brainwave visual analysis - collaboration with Sam Wiehl, Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia : 'PZYK SKAN' 2017
this guest is particularly high amplitude signal from brainwaves so more colour shaders, faster scene changes etc occurring