Sound of Vision (2014)

Sound of Vision uses Biofeedback from viewers to create a live soundtrack for silent films. Data from EEG monitors on three audience members is translated into musical notes played by orchestral instruments. Clarinetist Don Byron and pianist Lewis Porter improvise to the sounds of the brainwaves creating a call and response between the visual, sonic and psyche. Andrew Demirjian performs a live mapping and mix of the participant’s brainwave data creating solos, duet and trio combinations of their visual reception.