THE WELL TEMPERED BRAIN
An audio-visual Installation with live concert.
06. – 14. Oktober 2017
at FAKTOR, Hamburg
MARK MATTHES (installation & composition, violin)
ANTON KOCH (sonification programming)
In collaboration with:
SERGEY KOSTYRKO (St. Petersburg – modular synthesizer)
ALEXANDER TRATTLER (light / mapping)
ALEXANDER KAGANSKY molecular biology – University of Edinburgh,UK
PAUL ROACH bioengineer – Loughborough University, UK
RUTH MAY (violin)
ANDREW KRELL (double bass)
ARTSCI NEXUS / CANDACE GOODRICH (Initiator / Stockholm)
„The Well Tempered Brain“ is cultured „in vitro“ in the laboratory , called „nanobrain“.
It´s activity is translated into a musical composition and visualized in graphic forms as a collaborative efford of Scientists, Artists and Musicians. The resulting presentation gives insight to current scientific research, as well as it can be experienced intuitively due to the artistic audiovisual interpretation. This cross-disciplinary collaboration is between artists Anton Koch and Mark Matthes (known as Chamberlab), with guest musicians Ruth May and Andrew Krell, as well as sound musician and theoretical physicist Sergey Kostyrko, and molecular biologist Dr. Alexander Kagansky and bioengineer Dr. Paul Roach.
The immersive experience results from ongoing experiments with sonifying neural network data in the study of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. This conceptual artistic approach to scientific research utilizes classical music composition methodology in order to gain new perspectives in data analysis. Ordinarily data is examined graphically, we hope that the complexity of sound diagnostics can lead to new discoveries (text: Candace Goodrich).
„Das wohl temperierte Gehirn“ ist ein im Labor gezüchtetes „Nanobrain“, dessen Aktivität in musikalische Komposition übersetzt wird. Das interdisziplinäre Projekt verbindet Kunst, Musik und Wissenschaft zu einer Gesamtinszenierung, die sowohl Einblicke in die aktuelle Forschung bietet, als auch intuitiv musikalisch erfahrbar gemacht und künstlerisch interpretiert wird.
In Kooperation mit zwei Wissenschaftlern, Dr. Paul Roach und Dr. Alexander Kaganski, sowie dem Musiker und Mathematiker Sergey Kostyrko wird eine audio-visuelle Installation mit Konzert konzipiert, die aus Experimenten mit lebendigen neuronalen Netzwerken hervorgeht, indem Messwerte in eine kompositionelle, grafische und skulpturale Form übertragen werden. Dr. Paul Roach (Biomaterials and Interface Science) untersucht die Kommunikation zwischen Nervenzellen aus verschiedenen Bereichen des Gehirns in Hinsicht auf die Heilung von u.a. Parkinson und Alzheimer.
FULL CONCERT:
“9 Evenings Revisited – In Theory as in Practice” involving 20 artists and scientists from Russia, Taiwan, the UK, US, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany.
The artists and scientists came together during this think tank of the ArtSci Nexus Network at Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig in April 2026, initiated by curator Candace Goodrich to foster interdisciplinary exchange.
A Collaboration with scientists from the Global Young Acadamy.
Sasha Kagansky (UK/Russia), Sergey Kostyrko (Russia), Paul Roach (UK)
