Masaki Batoh is best known as one of the founding members of Japan’s longstanding experimental (and mysterious) rock band Ghost. These days he spends much of his time running his own acupuncture clinic in Tokyo and researching a way of making music with “extracted brain waves”, for which he had a machine purpose built.
This project stemmed from his original conception to record an entire album of music made directly from his mind, but his plans were put on hold when the 2011 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan.
In this unique show, the “performer” of the machine wears a special headset connected to a computer motherboard. It records waves from the brain’s parietal and frontal lobes, then converts them into radio waves, and sends them back. There, they are converted into wave “pulses” that yield actual sounds.
It all sounds like a unique and mesmerizing night!
Support comes from Dublin trio Dentistry