How would your world look and sound if it was controlled by your subconscious brain?
A group of collaborative artists, scientists, creative technologists, makers and programmers have been experimenting with the human brain in a dark lab in the heart of Yorkshire. Extracting electrical impulses from the participants’ brains in realtime, via EEG technology and merging this with live visuals and music through bespoke software, brings to life an interactive and immersive audio-visual experience unlike anything you’ve seen before.
Souls as Software Objects explores the future of humanity and technology and is the third live performative experiment presented by the Frozen Music Collective. The project fuses written and improvised musical elements using acoustic and electronic sounds with visual technologies, interpreted through specially designed software that is stimulated by realtime conscious and subconscious brain activity.
Within the framework of this experiment the chosen participants are centred within the piece and their reactions are analysed through brainwave activity, exploring the topical narratives of technology and human existence with the hastening convergence of the two, from genetics and robotics, to nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. Enveloping mapped projections will engulf the audience within the site specific performance space, blurring the edges of the senses and simulating synesthesia for participating audience members, exploring the symbiotic relationship of the human brain and technology.
The performance is sold out, but the Frozen Music Collective welcome you to join in the experience from the comfort of your own home through live, online streaming via a HD multicam setup.
With support from Arts Council England, the performance takes place Live Art Bistro in Leeds on Saturday 14th March, 7pm to 9pm for those lucky enough to have a ticket, and will be streamed live on their website for everyone else: www.frozenmusiccollective.uk
Photography by Dave Lynch.