Commissioned by Pollen Music Group and Brainstorms.
Performed at BrainMind conference in San Francisco, 2025.
Two violinists played an original score side-by-side while wearing EEG headsets, feeding their brain wave data into a visual system in real time.
Each performer's neural state is visualized by mapping specific brain wave metrics to various textural parameters, corresponding to high-level emotional states like 'high valence' or 'low attention.'
The magic of the piece comes when the two performers exhibit correlation in their emotional states as they play the same piece of music. This correlation is visualized by the birth of a beautiful particle system representing the contributions of each performer to the synchronous whole.