Product Description
Express your Mind
Soundmachines BI1brainterface is an exploration and performance tool for musician, producers, actors, body performers and coreographers who wants to connect their mental and emotional sphere directly with the performance.
We wanted to create something that doesn’t require the use of a computer, and brings immediacy and easy of operation in this upcoming technology.
By stressing the capabilities of the Neurosky MindWave Mobile, the Mindwave Mobile 2 and the Macrotellect Brainlink Lite headsets, the BI1brainterface is developed to connect your mental status to your gear, in the most easy and open way possible.
Whenever you have an analog modular synthesizer or a MIDI sound generator, you can influence on sounds, sequences, timbres and drive the performance with an added controller, the most sophisticated: you.
Attention and Meditation are the most ‘robust’ and repeatable variables that you can count on. But also the EEG power spectrum bands (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Theta) are available to control other eight sound/light/video characteristics. As a bonus, we put in your toolbox a variable threshold to generate a ‘trigger’ based on your facial muscular activities (i.e. blinking or grin).
In the studio or in a live environment, weared by a dancer or an actor on stage, or just use it to relax yourself and raise your self-consciousness about focus, relax and meditation.
Bio feedback is another field of operation for the BI1brainterface, reaching applications such as the several described above and more.
You can find the newest Macrotellect BrainLink Lite, here:
https://www.mindtecstore.com/en/Macrotellect-BrainLink-Lite-EEG-Headset-V20
Available in both eurorack and desktop versions, you can buy it now in the shop.
User’s Manual: BI1brainterface_Manual_Oct2014
Download the latest FW here: FW_BI1
UPDATING PROCEDURE:
- Download the .zip file.
- Use an empty SD card, possibly rather small, 2gb at max and in FAT32 format.
- Unzip the file, and copy the .hex file in the root directory.
- Insert it in the SD card slot in the BI1.
- Keep the encoder pressed down while powering the module.
- Wait until the update procedure is completed.
- Proceed with a clean pairing procedure.
Richard Fowler’s show video on BI1brainterface introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3vgHViegvU
Technical Introduction to the BI1brainterface
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1pxVPeDUs
Small Jam with the Brainterface and modular synth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn4Q5yJcli4
A “Mind Drone”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAMaah1_z0
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