RECORD
Brain activity is recorded, selected, and reduced into usable control information.
EEG / 3D SCAN / REALTIME IMAGE / SOUND
IN MY
HEAD
An audiovisual study translating recorded brain activity into motion, distortion, and an unstable digital self-portrait.
YEAR / 2026STATE / ONGOING STUDY
[ 01 / CONCEPT ]
THE BODY AS CONTROL DATA
The project begins with a contradiction: brain activity is intimate and biological, yet it arrives as numbers. Instead of treating those numbers as clinical evidence, XSONG uses them as material for an audiovisual system.
Recorded EEG values influence the movement of a scanned head inside TouchDesigner. The result is neither a literal portrait nor a scientific visualization—it is a translation shaped by memory, instability, and signal loss.
EEG DATA→CONTROL VALUES→TOUCHDESIGNER→3D HEAD / CAMERA→SOUND + FINAL EDIT
[ 02 / PROCESS ]
MAP
Signal values are mapped to rotation, camera motion, and visual instability in TouchDesigner.
EDIT
The realtime image system is placed in dialogue with music and shaped into the final film.
[ 03 / INTENT ]
NOT DATA VISUALIZATION
The EEG is not used as decoration or proof of objectivity. It functions as another instrument: limited, noisy, embodied, and open to interpretation. The controlled system begins to malfunction, and the malfunction reveals the person inside it.
[ 04 / CREDITS ]
- PROJECT
- IN MY HEAD
- ARTIST
- XSONG
- DIRECTION
- XSONG
- VISUAL SYSTEM
- TOUCHDESIGNER / 3D SCAN
- SOUND + EDIT
- XSONG
- TOOLS
- EEG / TOUCHDESIGNER / ABLETON