ICT & ART Connect | London

– Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture for Xth Sense biophysical instrument. ICT & ART Connect is a public initiative that focusses on exploring new ways of working with Art & Technology. This is one of several events taking place across Europe, to bring together artists and technologists from all fields to foster the development of […]

What is Sound Design…? | Symposium

– Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture for Xth Sense biophysical instrument. – Invited panelist with Chris Watson, Adam Linson and Sandra Pauletto on the theme “(un)natural systems and (de)composition: abstraction, reducibility and audibility”. Chair Dr. Owen Green. The University of Edinburgh is delighted to announce and invite you to its first symposium on sound. Over […]

CYNETART Festival | Metabody Project

– Double performance of “Hypo Chrysos”, action art for vexed body and biophysical media. The CYNETART international festival focuses on aspects in art, science, culture and media technology, and in particular, on broaching the issue of the change of the perception of the body by new information technologies. Herein, the performance of the new technology […]

Watermans Digital Weekender

– Performing with the new trio DMT, with Atau Tanaka, Christos Michalakos and myself. Biophysical instruments, mobile phones music, and augmented drums feedback. Also on stage Addictive TV, Paul Granjon, dS, Pychastenia Studio and Joel Cahen, among the others. A world class, high profile, cultural organisation based in London, which offers the only all year […]

IEEE Elevate | Lecture

– Lecture on the engineering of creative biotechnologies. Insights on current personal research around adaptive artificial intelligence technology, bioscience, and the politics of the body. The goal of IEEE Elevate is to present innovative engineering practices to students and young engineers and inspire them to push the limits of how they perceive their careers and […]

radical. Signs of Life

2013 | Large-scale, multi-media show for biophysical dance and music (Xth Sense technology)

EAVI Nite | Electro Anthro Visceral Intensity

– Performing with the new trio DMT, with Atau Tanaka, Christos Michalakos and myself. Also on stage Joanne Cannon, Ryan Jordan, Tom Richards, Matthew Yee King, Shelley Parker, Mick Grierson, DJ Man with Feathers. The EAVI research unit presents a night of Electro Anthro Visceral Intensity with infrabass pulsations, electronic circuit crackles, leather bassoons, bio-interfaces […]

STEIM Summer Party

– Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture, and “Music for Flesh II”, solo piece for enhanced body. Both pieces will be performed with the Xth Sense, biophysical instrument. Other artists on stage include Mazen Kerbaj, Laetitia Sonami and James Fei, among the others. June 18th is the official STEIM summer party day. It’s a day to […]

NIME, conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

– Performing “Liminal Corpus”, an audio-visual piece for networked bodies, generative video, and the Xth Sense. Featuring Anna Weisling, Miguel Ortiz, and Marco Donnarumma. – Paper “Muscular Interactions: Combining EMG and MMG sensing for musical performance”. Talk about current research in biosignal-based multimodal musical instruments. NIME is an annual interdisciplinary conference discussing contemporary topics in […]

EMPAC | [radical] sign of life

– Large-scale biophysical performance for self-organising dance, generative video, multi-channel sound, and the Xth Sense. [radical] signs of life is a multi-disciplinary, interactive dance performance that externalizes the inner working of the mind’s non-hierarchical distribution of thought. Music is generated from dancers’ muscles and blood flow via the Xth Sense biophysical sensors that capture sound […]

Nigredo

2013 | Private experience of altered self-perception and biophysical media (Xth Sense technology)

POLAND TOUR | Lodz Art Factory

– Performing “Hypo Chrysos”, action art for vexed body and biophysical media. Also on stage Maciej Ozog and Gerard Lebik. Bios@Techne@Art is a program of performative events spanning 4 major cities in Poland. The aim is to foster discussion around the role of biotechnologies in performance art, and explore how such framework can inform the […]

POLAND TOUR | Lodz Art Factory, Panel discussion

– Panel discussion on biologically informed performance art, music, and other creative media. With Maciej Ozog and Gerard Lebik. Bios@Techne@Art is a program of performative events spanning 4 major cities in Poland. The aim is to foster discussion around the role of biotechnologies in performance art, and explore how such framework can inform the cultural […]

POLAND TOUR | Wroclaw

– Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body; – Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture. Also on stage: Gerard Lebik Tractography Neural Tracts Noise Maciej Ożóg Transient Body/Liminal Space – Interactive performance for body and electromagnetic waves.

Plymouth University | Lecture

Lecture on biophysical instruments for music and performance art. Insights into our current research at Goldsmiths, University of London focusing on biological media and the arts, bodily performance and technology, machine learning and gestural control of music. Plymouth University is the largest university in the South West of England, with over 32,000 students and is […]

The Cube | Lecture

Lecture and demo on biophysical instruments for music and performance art. Biological media and the arts, bodily performance and technology. The event is organised by Supernatant Laboratories. Supernatant Laboratories is a UK-based organisation conducting independent multi-faceted research programmes exploring the fertile interfaces between technology and modernity; creativity and artistic practise; metaphysics, ontology and meaning, and […]

STEIM | Xth Sense Workshop Amsterdam

– Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is an independent live electronic music centre unique in its dedicated to the performing arts. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely […]

STEIM | Artist Talk

Lecture discussing biological media and arts, bodily performance and technology. Starts at 2pm, free. STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is an independent live electronic music centre unique in its dedicated to the performing arts. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely physical interfaces and is widely considered as the pioneering place for the new […]

STEIM | New Work Residency

– Two weeks residency at STEIM to develop a new work entitled “Nigredo” to be previewed at Sonic Acts Festival. STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is an independent live electronic music centre unique in its dedicated to the performing arts. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely physical interfaces and is widely considered as […]

TEI, Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

– Presenting research on multimodal interaction of biological and spatial sensing for musical performance with the paper: “Body and Space: Combining Modalities for Musical Expression” – Presenting Hypo Chrysos, an action art piece for vexed body and biophysical media with the paper: “Hypo Chrysos: Mapping in Interactive Action Art Using Bioacoustic Sensing” TEI 2013 is […]

APO33 | Xth Sense Workshop Nantes France

– Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

Hypo Chrysos

2011, 2013 | Action art for vexed body and biophysical media (Xth Sense technology)

Ominous

2012-2013 | Incarnated sound sculpture (Xth Sense technology)

Xth Sense digital interface

2011, present | A biophysical instrument enabling music creation and software/hardware physical control by using muscle sounds

The Moving Forest

2012 | Durational performance of remorse for extended bodies and voices (Xth Sense technology)