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crowd has gathered around Per Huttner. He stands upright in a dark room, not moving, eyes fixed on a white sheet of paper in his hand, wires snaking from his skull. Doctor Stephen Whit- marsh manipulates Huttner’s brain chatter on a glowing console and relays the thought forms to Jean- Louis Huhta, the musician. There, Huttner’s recital of Samuel Beck- ett’s Ohio Impromptu returns in echoing, disembodied fragments. It’s not the beginning of a science- fiction cyber-ritual, but rather a sound-and-technology experiment called EEGsynth by European col- lective 1 + 1 = 3, guest residents at art house A Ship in the Woods this past April.
The EEGsynth takes signals from Huttner’s jaw movement along with alpha and theta brain- wave activity, runs them through Whitmarsh’s software, and pro- cesses them via Huhta’s synthe- sizer patches to create a live loop of distorted reading.
“This way of dealing with brain data in real-time analysis and feedback is a field by itself, especially as these technolo- gies become more available,” Dr. Whitmarsh, who holds degrees in experimental psychology and neuroscience from universities in
ESCONDIDO IMPROMPTU
International collective 1 + 1 = 3 presented EEGsynth at A Ship in the Woods in April.
the Netherlands, says in a Q&A session after the performance. “A big part of my mind while I was looking at the signal was just praying that it would work. To see that it works and that we’ve created this interface I think shows we’ve found a lot of solu- tions that will be encountered by scientists who are studying this technology, so we plan to present them in a scientific paper.” “I must say that tonight
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“The body has other voices,
how can we play with that?”
felt a bit muddled compared to the sessions we’ve been hav- ing this week,” says Huhta, a Swedish composer and acid- techno musician. “There have been much clearer instances. For
Curator Lianne Mueller says the house will be focusing on events and participation.
me, it’s an ongoing process of delving into this machine to see what I can do with this signal I’m receiving from Per.”
“It’s very different every time,” agrees Huttner, an artist from Sweden. “I think we are interested less in control and more in this element of surprise. There are a lot of these interfaces where people are paralyzed and can play music and things like that. We’re more interested in saying, ‘Okay, the body has this voice that we’re used to, but the body has other voices, and how can we play with that?’ I mean, I never knew what my jaw sounded like before, and that’s interest- ing, so it’s more about throwing ourselves off the cliff and seeing what comes up.”
This intersection of experi- mentation, artistic vision, and scientific mindfulness is exem- plary of the projects that A Ship in the Woods curates in their quarterly expositions and resi-
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dencies. The nonprofit relocated from Del Mar to Escondido last August, taking several months to revamp the mid-century- turned-modern-residential estate and surround- ing 2.5 acres of jungle gardens before their grand opening on June 4. The event featured 25 artists and drew around 600 attendees.
Dr. Stephen Whitmarsh (left) created software to convert EEG signals into audio samples.
A guest made bubbly cocktails in tribute to the late Prince. “We’re here in San Diego to
stay,” curator Lianne Mueller later told me as guests sipped bubbling dry-ice cocktails made by a friend of the house and dubbed “Purple Rain” in honor of a recently de- parted icon of rock nobility. “Now that we own the house [the Del Mar location was leased], we are building a recording studio and performance space. We’re plan- ning more workshops and much more of a retreat atmosphere. We’ll be engaging and learning from our guests and audience. The
emphasis is on events and even more, participation. Engaging on a personal level.”
Engage the new stage with a day-show from British cow-post- punk prototypes the Mekons on September 25 with Sun Foot (Pa- nache) and Sam Coomes (Quasi, Elliott Smith).
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