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Tender Rhythms is an interactive installation that explores direct human connection on a physical (and electrical) level.

A collaboration with Stephanie Koziej and Michael Winters, the piece seeks to demonstrate the concept of “the third” as it appears when two individuals make a meaningful connection together. To achieve this, we have two participants sit across from each other with BCI (Brain-Computer-Interfaces). As their eyes meet, and they start to connect with each other on an emotional level, their alpha brainwaves will synchronize, forming a third pattern that exists only between them. To demonstrate this connection, we use sonification and visualization of the strength and duration of this connection as it occurs in real-time.

The result is a breaking apart of the separate, isolated representations of each participant and fusing of these pieces into an entity of its own.