Treediation - Viertelfestival NÖ 2010

biofeedback in artistic context

Research

Midori-san, the blogging houseplant

If houseplants could blog, what would they say? To find out, Kamakura-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named “Midori-san” is now using the system to blog daily from its home at bowls Donburi Cafe in Kamakura.
Link: http://pinktentacle.com/2008/10/midori-san-the-blogging-houseplant/

Akousmaflore - Végétaux musicaux sensibles et interactifs

Akousmaflore by the French Scenocosme (Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt) = Pflanzenmusik
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEr3eabiLIo
Video in den Details!

psychobotany

Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Human/Plant Communication
Link: http://www.psychobotany.com

The Secret Life of Plants

Rare 1979 documentary explores the Secret Life of Plants. Includes music and songs written by Stevie Wonder, who also appears in the film. (Google Video; July 9, 2007)
.. in den Details oder unter http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4753736638977368381#

Anbieter für Microelectroden mit Guide

Link: http://www.microprobes.com/metal_microelectrodes.php

Non-invasive measurement of bioelectric currents with a vibrating probe

Link: http://arasysperfector.com/articles/?p=495
http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v2/n3/full/nprot.2007.91.html#f1

Brain Wave Sofa: Sitting in your Brainwave EEG Data

The physical shape of the Brainwave Sofa [lucasmaassen.com] by Lucas Maassen and Dries Verbruggen from Unfold is determined by a 3 second wave of Alpha brain activity captured as an elektro-encefalogram (EEG) using a set of electrodes connected to the head
Link: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/10/brain_wave_sofa.html

mind.mooves manifesto

... oder eine “Improvisation” über das “Grosse Glas” von Duchamp. by Didi Neidhart

interessantes oxfordjournal

Wär sicher interessant. Abnahmeverfahren und Sensortechnik zur Messung bioelektrischer Vorgänge.
Link: http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/2/297

Patent title: Biosensor device and method

recht umfangreich und ehrgeizig beschriebener Patentantrag für ein mobiles biofeedback-device.
Link: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080208016

Sensor system runs on electricity generated by trees

am MIT forscht man an baumeigenen Energiequellen zum Betrieb von Sensornetzen.
Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/trees-0923.html
Der kommerzielle Anbieter im Hintergrund ist interessant: EWAN, with the Voltree Power module at its heart, is the first remote-sensing network that presents an attractive return on investment for vast forestland monitoring.

Biotechnologie Forschungszentrum Blankenheim

Biophotonen / Biophotonik / Biophotonics / Zellstrahlung
Situationsbericht und Rückblick der Biophotonic-Forschung in Deutschland. tw. gute Grundlageninfos uvm.
Link: http://www.biomeditec.de/Biophotonen.htm
TIP: Bioelektromagnetisches Feld und manuelles Biofeedback

Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake, weltweit einer der kreativsten Biologen, hat das wissenschaftliche Denken revolutioniert durch seine Vision eines lebendigen, sich entwickelnden Universums mit eigenem Gedächtnis. Ursprünglich als Entwicklungsbiologe tätig, wurde er bekannt durch seine Theorie der morphischen Felder und der morphischen Resonanz.
Link: http://www.sheldrake.org/Deutsch/
Tip: Introduction to MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS

universitäres (ca, us, it) projekt zu biometrie im künstlerischen kontext

Biometric Tendency Recognition and Classification
Link: http://www.sfu.ca/pasquier/Publications/DIMEA-2008-castellanos-pasquier.pdf

US Patent 5016213 - Method and apparatus for controlling an electrical device using gsr

... electrodermal response and the like of a biologic individual is utilized by programming an electrical device to respond in a desired humanly perceptible fashion to changes in the sense and amplitude of an electrical control signal only in a given range. A value characteristic of the state of an autonomic system, for example, the galvanic skin resistance of the individual, is then sensed and converted to an electrical signal, the absolute value of which changes in sense and amplitude with changes in the sensed value characteristic of the state of the autonomic system and such electrical signal is continuously adjusted in absolute value toward a given electrical value with a given time rate of change approaching the average time rate of change which can be achieved in the value characteristic of the state of the autonomic system by the central nervous system of a biologic individual. The resultant time rate of change in the absolute value of the electrical signal is converted to an electrical signal within the given range and used as the electrical control signal for the electrical device.

Link: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5016213/description.html

Schaltungen, Bauteile, Pläne, etc

Mini-Lügendetektor - FC0132 http://www.ds-electronics.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92
noch einer: http://www.duran2.de/felektro/Schaltungen/luegendetektor.html

Florianne Koechlin, Rheinauer Thesen zu Pflanzenrechten

Florianne Koechlin beschreibt in ihren Ausführungen Forschungsergebnisse und Konzepte zu Pflanzenrechten etc. Die Rheinauer Thesen sind höchst interessant, noch vor 60 Jahren war Tierschutz kein Thema, es wird dringend Zeit diesen Prozess im Sinne der Botanik zu starten. Die Thesen sind ein sympathischer Vorstoss dahin.
Link: http://www.blauen-institut.ch/tx_blu/ta/ta_rheinau_05_pk.html
und http://www.blauen-institut.ch/pg_blu/pt/a_t.html

Versuch zu Elektrodermaler Aktivität (EDA)

in german, viele Grundlageninfos.
Link: http://www.isf.uni-bremen.de/P-EDA.pdf

Vom Biofeedback zur Psychointeraktivität

Biofeedback, Methoden, Forschung, Ausblicke
von Andrzej Slawinski, ©2001
Link: http://www.dreamflow.de/berichte/mental/biofeedback.html

universelle Kommunikationsmedien zwischen Pflanzen, Tieren und Menschen

Aufsatz: Elektromagnetische Wellen und Biophotonen als universelle Kommunikationsmedien zwischen Pflanzen, Tieren und Menschen
... sehr guter historischer und theoretischer Überblick zum Thema aus Sicht der Kommunikationswissenschaften, Prof. Dr. Michael Giesecke, Uni Erfurt.
Link: http://www.michael-giesecke.de/theorie/dokumente/12_pflanze/essay/12_elektromagnet_biophotonen_pflanz_tier_mensch.htm

Lehner Sensor-Systeme - Patent für Pflanzen-EKG

Elektrophysiogramm im landwirtschaftlichen Einsatz.
Link: http://www.schweizerbauer.ch/htmls/artikel_18064.html

David Last - The Secret Life of Plants

goal of the experiment was to find out if it is possible to allow a plant to unconsciously structure a piece of music (or at the very least, to use the biological flux of electrical signals from a house plant in order to determine a musical structure, in collaboration with a human).
Link: http://www.duncanlaurie.com/blogs/david-last-secret-life-plants

mind.mooves kt09 - Klang bewegt


Installation im Klangturm St.Pölten in der Saison 2009, zum Thema „Klang bewegt“.  Biofeedback Module als Medium zur Darstellung von Koppelungseffekten zwischen Besuchern und einem Kunst (Didaktik) Modell, eines interaktiven Erlebnis- und Wahrnehmungsraums.

info & kontakt

mind.mooves definiert sich als offenes, künstlerisches Setting welches mittels Biofeedback von Besuchern, Probanden oder anderen organischen Mittlern (Pflanzen) parametrisiert, ein breites Spektrum konzeptueller Darstellungsmöglichkeiten von Mensch-Maschine-Umwelt Interaktionen bietet.
Das Erleben der eigenen Einflussnahme auf „mentaler“ (bioelektrischer) Ebene eröffnet dem Besucher eine vom Status des reinen Betrachters losgelöste Position des „integrierten“ Akteurs, welcher wiederum selbst Parameter auf dem Wege der Wahrnemung (Rolle, Thema, Visualisierung, Sonifikation, mechanischen Darstellung,..) entgegennimmt. Der resultierende Mensch-Maschine-Kreislauf lädt den Besucher zum spielerischen Experimentieren mit dem thematischen Gesamtkontext ein und eröffnet das der biofeedback-Methode zugrunde liegende Erleben der eigenen, neurobiologischen Vorgänge.

Projektträger: Institut für Kunst und Technologie
Alois Huber - http://www.aloishuber.com (http://www.laton.at)
Martin Dürauer - http://www.art-house.at/md/
v.11.2008

Galvanic Skin response sensor/data logger @ biomapping

Bio Mapping is a community mapping project in which over the last four years with more than 1500 people have taken part in. It consists of 3 different components.
1 A Galvanic Skin response sensor/data logger
2 A commercial GPS unit.
3 Visulisation/Mapping software.

Link: http://www.biomapping.net/technical.htm

Exemplar

Exemplar is a plug-in written for Eclipse 3.2 and is a tool that introduces new techniques for authoring sensor based interactions through programming by demonstration. To generalize from demonstrations, Exemplar provides a graphical direct manipulation interface.
Link: http://hci.stanford.edu/research/exemplar/

a Galvanic Skin Response Sensor

Link: http://regexp.bjoern.org/archives/000187.html

The Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) and Emotion

gute Grundlagen zu GSR sowie typische Versuchsanordnungen.
Link: http://www.iworx.com/LabExercises/lockedexercises/LockedGSRANL.pdf

MIDI Yoke

MIDI YOKE is a MIDI Patch Cable driver. It is used to connect any Windows MIDI Application outputs to any other Applications inputs. The MIDI data stream is passed directly from output to input
Link: http://www.midiox.com/myoke.htm#Desc

Sensoren von der Stange

Liste von Anbietern und Herstellern verschiedenster (meist eeg) biofeedback devices.

Diplomarbeit:

Ein univ. System zur Anwendung von Biosignalen im Biofeedback und als Human Computer Interface
von Christoph Veigl 2006/2007

Biomedical Instrumentation

http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/courses/BE513/Projects/

Detecting Biodynamic Signal, L. George Lawrence

einige Studien der BORDERLAND SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION zum Thema biofeedback von pflanzen.
zb. Biodynamic Plant Research: http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/plant.htm
hier http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/plantsas.htm wird ein Abnahmeverfahren incl. Equipment und Versuchsreihen ziemlich exakt beschrieben.

oder Detecting Biodynamic Signals über die Arbeit von L. George Lawrence: http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/detectin.htm
... incl. Bauanleitung für den Biodynamic Response Detector (eher unten).

Tana Sprague, Biofeedback on plants

Being born and raised in the Silicon Valley created a unique relationship with the electronic realm for Tana Sprague.
Projektbeschreibung “Biofeedback” in den details.
Link: http://music.mills.edu/signalflow06/artists/sprague.html

Music-loving plants, music-giving plants

das klingt interessant:

a Japanese company has created a gadget that puts you in touch with the ‘feelings’ of plants.
This gadget gauges the electrical activity in plants and can register a plant’s response when exposed to music. The device is called the Plantone and has two sensor clips that are attached to the leaves of the plant.
When the device’s lamp turns red, it means a strong electrical current has passed within the plant’s cells. It signifies a positive response. A green light on the other hand occurs when the cell electrical signals are weak, signifying a negative or unhappy response.

Link: http://www.pitara.com/discover/earth/online.asp?story=109

About Positive Music

über Dorothy Retallack, The Sound of Music and Plants.
die Dame hat intensiv an der Wirkung von Musik auf Pflanzen geforscht. und die theory of positive and negative music aufgestellt.
Link: http://www.dovesong.com/positive_music/plant_experiments.asp

phytech

Anbieter für Sensoren zur Pflanzenwachstumskontrolle etc im Agrarbereich.
Link: http://www.phytech.co.il/products_new.html

Perversely Interactive System

Projektbeschreibung einer gsr-daten basierenden interaktiven video installation von Lynn Hughes and Simon Laroche (ca).

Perversely Interactive System is an installation which puts the spectator- participant into relation with a virtual other whose image (s)he controls through a biofeedback device.

Link: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/interstc/projets/enlhPervInterSyst.html

bwgen yahoo.group

Discussion centered around the BrainWave Generator software and brain wave entrainment in general.
This group is meant for discussions ranging anywhere from BrainWave Generator’s technical features to sharing OOBE (out-of-body) experiences with other users.
BrainWave Generator is a brain wave stimulation software that generates tones with binaural beats. For more information, see http://www.bwgen.com.
Link: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/

twitter

The Botanicalls Twitter kit includes all the hardware you need to create a networked communication system for your plant
Link: http://www.botanicalls.com/twitter/
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=93

Plants tell sensor when they need a drink

rfid-basierte pflanzensensoren.
Link: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1985483.htm

pip

The PIP is a revolutionary biosensor that helps you combat stress. Communicating wirelessly with an entertainment application that runs on your mobile phone, it provides a unique stress management solution in a highly portable, consumer friendly package and at a consumer friendly price.
Link: http://www.vyro-games.com/products/PIP/PIPMain.php

para.. electronix

Ein Geisterjäger schildert Erfahrungen mit gsr-daten. auch mit Pflanzen.
Link: http://www.paradoxelectronics.com/gsr.htm

bci aus graz

Brain Computer Interface (BCI) made by tu graz.
Link: http://www.aksioma.org/brainloop/photos.html
http://www.hindawi.com/getarticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/2007/79826

museum der wahrnehmung

noch nie von gehört und doch so nah.

Wenn Sie im klangerfüllten Raum verblüffende Inseln der Stille entdecken, wenn vor Ihren Augen Personen und Gegenstände unsichtbar werden und Sie lernen, mit der Oberfläche Ihrer Haut zu sehen, dann haben Sie den Schritt in eines der außergewöhnlichsten Museen dieses Landes gewagt

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Link: http://muwa.at/

SonEnvir, psyCollider

“SonEnvir is a research project that investigates applying sonification in a number of scientific disciplines, in order to develop a general sonification software environment. It is the first collaboration of the four universities in Graz, Austria…”
Link: http://sonenvir.at/downloads/sc3

CMCA Website

Link: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/CMCA/positions.htm
... eine Menge Projektbeschreibungen

IBVA II = ibva4

Scheinbar gibts den eigentlichen Hersteller (ibva technologies inc., USA) des ibva nichtmehr. Vielmehr hat das Teil scheinbar ein britisches Unternehmen weiterentwickelt (oder annektiert, wer weiss.):

There is a lot of confusion out there regarding “IBVA” since the USA company ceased trading - as their website is still online. IBVA UK is not connected to them. IBVA UK provides international sales and training, and aims to develop new associations and projects with people who have a creative vision with technology, to make the future become the now.

... wobei, ganz seriös erscheint mir die Truppe nicht. Weder ein Firmenwortlaut noch eine Adresse sind auf der website zu finden. Das 2-kanalige wireless-Interface mit Sensor und Softwar kommt dann auch gleich auf 1.200 Pfund und mehr, ob da die Software dabei is kann ich nicht eroieren.
Link: http://www.ibva.co.uk/
google-group: http://groups.google.com/group/ibva

IBVA System (bis 2004)

IBVA is a system created and refined through over 30 years of research. The IBVA provides intricate interactive control from brainwave activity. Put simply, the IBVA watches brainwave activity in real time and allows you to use them to trigger movies, music, home automation devices, images, sounds, other software, or almost any electronically addressable device through a local computer or from the internet.
Link: http://www.ibva.com/ bzw. http://www.ibva.com/html/core.htm

BRAIN WAVE CHICK I -VI

Audio & Animation controlled with neural signaling.
Link: http://www.brainwavechick.com/pages/walkerss.html

bio mapping

anhand von biofeedback-signalen (gsr), welche von probanden bei stadtrundgängen aufgezeichneten werden entstehen “stimmungs” karten. sehr interessant.
Link: http://www.biomapping.net/new.htm

sony - patent auf duftende videos

THE Japanese entertainment giant Sony has patented an idea for transmitting data directly into the brain, with the goal of enabling a person to see movies and play video games in which they smell, taste and perhaps even feel things, it was reported today.
das war 2005. was daraus wohl wurde?
Link: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12780383-13762,00.html

bbc interactive brainmap

nette interactive brain-map auf bbc.science
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/organs/brainmap/

Scans Reveal Similarity in Brain Structure Between Gay Men and Straight Women

Brain scans of 90 volunteers showed that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women were slightly asymmetric with the right hemisphere slightly larger than the left, Ivanka Savic and Pers Lindstrom wrote. The brains of gay men and heterosexual women were not.
Link: http://blog.cognitivelabs.com/2008/06/scans-reveal-similarity-in-brain.html

IMEC wireless EEG system powered by body heat

I16-10-2007 - Leuven, Belgium—IMEC has developed a 2-channel wireless EEG (electroencephalography or monitoring of brain waves) system powered by a thermo-electric generator. It uses the body heat dissipated naturally from the forehead. The wearable EEG system operates completely autonomous and maintenance-free with no need to change or recharge the batteries.
Link: http://www.imec.be/wwwinter/mediacenter/en/ARRM2007_EEG.shtml

google-notebook von Franz Kurfess

technologie news.
Link: http://www.google.com/notebook/public/02125172861144805914/BDQPhIgoQsvP_r7Qh#SDSKUIgoQ9JWu7cch

mindhacks (blog)

blog zu Neuroscience and psychology
Link: http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/news/index.html

Quantitative EEG and Neurotherapy Fact Sheet

jede menge kurven mit erklärungen.
Link: http://www.qeeg.com/qeegfact.html

EXTENDED MUSICAL INTERFACE WITH THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM

Abhandlung von by David Rosenboom ausm 97er jahr. Steckt allerdings vieles drin.
Link: http://leoalmanac.org/resources/emonograph/rosenboom/rosenboom.html

a small guide to bci

sehr informativ. da schildert einer sein brain-control-interface auf eeg-basis.
Tip: 3. Software,
Link: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/770002407831/m/817006547831

Thought Technology Ltd.

Biofeedback Equipment, komplette Setups für den medizinischen Bereich; Software: BioGraph Infiniti 4.0
Link: http://www.thoughttechnology.com/

pD (pure Data)

Pd is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio and graphical processing. It resembles the Max/MSP system but is much simpler and more portable; also Pd has two features not (yet) showing up in Max/MSP: first, via Mark Dank’s GEM package, Pd can be used for simultaneous computer animation and computer audio. Second, an experimental facility is provided for defining and accessing data structures.
Link: http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/x2.htm
Download: http://puredata.info/downloads/

BrainWaves [blog]

blog of Zack Lynch, executive director of the Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO) and co-founder of NeuroInsights. Tip: “Neuroresource Links”, “News Sources”, “Blogs I read”
Link: http://brainwaves.corante.com/

Extensive Article on the Brain Industry

David Ewing Duncan, columnist at Conde Nast Portfolio, writes the most comprehensive article on the neurotech industry written to date in a major publication. The Ultimate Cure comes complete with overviews of neuropharma and neurodevice treatments in development, detailed discussions about NeuroInsights, NERV, NIO, and the NNTI, as well as great interviews…
Link: http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060159&ct=1

Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex

A team of researchers has modeled in high-resolution the underlying architecture of the human cerebral cortex, showing how different brain regions interact with one another. This is basically an outline of the wiring connections between neurons in the brain’s outer layer.
found here: http://brainstimulant.blogspot.com/2008/07/better-brain-map.html
Link to original RESEARCH ARTICLE@PublicLibraryOfScience: http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060159&ct=1

Brain Stimulant [blog]

Blog covering several topics about the Brain, Neuroscience, Neurotechnology (transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, deep brain stimulation), Cognitive Enhancement, Brain-Computer Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence
Link: http://brainstimulant.blogspot.com/

A Young Person’s Guide to Brainwave Music

Forty years of audio from the human EEG
by Andrew Brouse
Link: http://www.mindmodulations.com/mindmods/general/a-young-persons-guide-to-brainwave-music.html
full-text in details!

BrainPaint

BrainPaint has stayed true to traditional forms of neurofeedback incorporating a game derived from the linear variables of amplitude and frequency. Layered upon this already proven delivery system, BrainPaint has added feedback on non-linear data extracted from the morphology of the EEG.
Found on Neurofeedback on the Brain Blog
..“BrainPaint extracts a new metric on the complexity of the EEG and feeds that back visually in a language the brain functions in.  Our brains and BrainPaint are complex systems—BrainPaint takes information communicated directly from the brain and creates real-time fractal images that the brain appears to understand.”
Link: http://www.brainpaint.com/brainpaint_overview.html

MindMods CogSciTech Biofeedback & Neurofeedback Blog

The latest on biofeedback, consciousness, neuroscience & neurotechnology.
Link: http://www.mindmodulations.com/mindmods/biofeedback/index.php

„BIOMETRISCHE FREIHEIT“ von Hans PLATZGUMER und Didi NEIDHART

Komponist und Musiker Hans Platzgumer und der Poptheoretiker und Musikerkollege Didi Neidhart setzen sich mit der Frage, was Freiheit ist und was die Freiheit kostet – nämlich zunehmend die Aufgabe der individuellen Freiheit und wachsende Kontrollwut, alles im Zeichen der (nationalen) Sicherheit – und haben daraus eine Radioskulptur geschaffen, eine radiophone Collage gespickt mit Zitaten zeitgenössischer Vordenker und Definitionen unterschiedlicher Methoden der Vermessung des menschlichen Körpers zur mehr oder weniger exakten Identifizierung eines Individuums, moderne Brandmale oder Wasserzeichen, und zusammengehalten durch die querdenkerischen, zuweilen poetisch-assoziativen Gedankenstränge.
Link: http://kunstradio.at/2005A/15_05_05.html

nodekit

richi radlherrs open source node-based toolkit for live performance drawing & animating.
Link: http://tagtool.org/developer/nodekit/

Elektro-Myographie (EMG) eine kleine Einführung

Eindrucksvolle Abhandlung, viele Grundlagen über Nervenzellen und deren Funktionsweise etc. Der Verfasser dürfte schon ein guter mann sein “...Zwei solcher Fälle habe ich bei einem Einsatz im Zürcher Universitätsspital in den 70er-Jahren mit einem von mir gebauten zweikanaligen EMG-Biofeedback-Gerät mitbetreut.”, Thomas Schaerer heißt er. Er meint:
Mit Haut-Oberflächenelektroden kann man schlecht EMG-Analyse betreiben, weil die Wiedergabe der APs ist nicht möglich. Auf Grund der Überlagerung sehr vieler solcher Impulse zeigt sich ein chaotisches Signalmuster und man misst einen Mittelspannungswert der die Anspannungskraft des Muskels wiedergibt.
... und Nadelsensoren will man den Besuchern wohl auch nicht antun. Schlussfolgerung: EMG-Signale (Muskelaktivitäten) taugen für unsere Zwecke primär nichts.
Link: http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/public/schaerer/emg1.htm

User-Input, 27.12.2009
...EMG-Signale fuer Ihre Zwecke nicht taugen. Fuer die differenzierte Messunng mittels Nadel- oder Draehtchenelektroden, wo es darum geht, Aktionspotentiale zu erfassen, trifft das bestimmt zu. Aber ich denke nicht, wenn EMG-Biofeedback ins Spiel kommt und genau dafuer genuegen einfache Hautoberflaechen-Elektroden, wie ich es in meinem Elektronik-Minikurs beschrieben habe: http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/public/schaerer/emg1.htm

Hirnwellen Facts

Unsere Hirnwellen werden nach ihrer Frequenz in fünf Kategorien unterteilt (siehe tabelle in details).

Entgegen der oft gebrauchten Zuordnung des logisch-analytischen Denkens zur linken und
ganzheitlich-intuitiver, kreativer Prozesse zur rechten Hemisphäre ist das EEG der meisten
Menschen nahezu symmetrisch

mindball

Mindball® Game is the spectacular braingame where two players control a physical ball using their brain waves. The player being most relaxed and focused wins the game. The brain waves are detected by sensors attached to headbands worn by the players. The result of the analyzed brain waves is presented in the balls movement and the players’ brain activity shown graphically on a monitor connected to the product.
Link: http://www.mindball.se/product.html

video: Coping With Stress - Biofeedback: Self-Mastery Beyond Pills

ein dynamischer Ph.D. spricht im University of California Television 130min über Mechanismen und Anwendungsfelder von Biofeedback im medizinisch/therapeutischen Bereich. Schon interessant, nette Einfühung allenfalls. English. Video in den details…

BioControl Systems - Neuro Interactive Technology

BioControl Systems makes wearable sensor systems for EEG, EOG, EMG, ECG, and GSR signal capture. We also provide signal processing for mobile monitoring and interactive applications.
Link: http://www.biocontrol.com/index.html

i-CubeX Software Roadmap

Mapping and routing | Software tinkering tools | Music, sound and other noisy devices | Video, image processing and animation | Lights, robotics and more action | Research and scientific analysis | Input devices, alternate controllers and the like | About interactive, media and electronic art
Super!!
Link:
http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/info_pages.php/pages_id/115

Physical Computing

—A Hands On Guide for Artists, Scientists, Hobbyists (and Engineers in a Hurry).
Link: http://itp.nyu.edu/~dbo3/physical/physical.htm

OpenEEG project

The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. Good overview of Software and Technologies, Konstruktionspläne, ...
Link: http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html

emotiv headset

> This is also a *very interesting* related product which I
> desperately hope works with Max:
> > http://www.emotiv.com/
> > They have everything packaged in the headset, so you can have all
> kinds of EEG and expression data sent to the computer. If Max can
> read this stuff, which it probably can, the sky’s the limit for
> audiovisual interaction via the brain!

leider erst ab irgendwann und dann exclusiv in usa zu haben.

Brad Garton Software

kleiner Softwareguru im audio-akkustischen Bereich. Sourcecodes grösstenteils inclusive.
Link: http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/software/index.html

SuperCollider - real time audio synthesis programming language

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
Link: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/ , http://audiosynth.com/

Homemade EEG & EKG (ECG) Schematics

home-made 4-channel, dual-purpose EEG/ECG box
Link: http://plus1plus1plus.org/Resources/EEG_EKG/

brainwave-signals to sound conversion

interessanter und aktueller thread zum thema software/hardware und Abnahmeverfahren von neurofeedback.
Link: http://www.cycling74.com/forums/index.php?rid=0&S=d2d0f668617d374be766a3fd22bc150a&t=msg&th=34578

max5

Link: http://www.cycling74.com/products/mmjoverview
MAX5, interactive graphical programming environment for music, audio, and media.

Pavel Smetana - The Room of Desires

Link: http://pavel.arscenic.org/eng/chambre/illB_SCHEMAVERTICAL.html
schematic figure of a audio/video-installation with biofeedback-environement.

Miya Masaoka - Pieces for Plants

Pieces for Plants is an interactive sound installation for laptop, synthesizer, and the American semi-tropical climbing Philodendron.
Link: http://www.miyamasaoka.com/interdisciplinary/brainwaves_plants/pieces_for_plants.html !!much more interesting projects to find.

artEmergent - Thought Conductor & more

musical performance where musicians are responding not to an arranged score, but instead to a direct manifestation of a conductor’s thought processes on stage.
there are some more interesting projects on this site.

I-CubeX

The I-CubeX line of products includes tools to capture the human actions and/or environmental variables and the tools to make these signals available to other equipment such as a computer or a musical instrument. To communicate with such equipment the MIDI data format is used, transmitted via MIDI cable or Bluetooth wireless.
Link: http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/info_pages.php/pages_id/117