← Lab PRJ-001 — Present Signals
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Biosignal · Generative Art · Cross-cultural
Present
Signals
Drammen, Norway — July 2026
Signal chain
01 Performer body + instrument
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02 Biosignal EEG · HRV
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03 Music piano · organ
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04 Image folk geometry · live
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The performer sees visuals generated from his own body and sound.
He responds. The loop closes.
Project
A pianist performs wearing EEG and heart rate sensors.
His physiological state and his music are read simultaneously —
two outputs of the same body, fed into a single generative system.
The system translates those signals into visual form
using Hungarian and Norwegian folk geometric patterns as its source vocabulary.
The images shift in real time as the performer plays.
He sees them, and improvises in response.
Body → signal → image → body. The loop runs continuously.
Parallel to this, textile and macramé works are produced
from the same generative outputs — a physical archive
built from what the system produces in each session.
Source material
Hungarian folk geometry — Kalocsa, Matyó — and Norwegian decorative pattern
from the Buskerud region are the two visual languages the system speaks.
Neither can be accessed remotely. Field research in Drammen's museum and
textile archives is part of the work.
Collaborators
Eniko Toth-Pribely Textile · Macramé · Documentation Budapest
Gergely K. Toth Generative system · Motion design Budapest
Peter Jonas Pianist · Church organist · Host Drammen
Phases
01 Field research + calibration Days 1–7
Norwegian folk pattern archives. Buskerud museum collections.
Sensor testing. System initialisation.
02 Intensive production Days 8–17
Daily performer–pattern feedback sessions.
Jonas plays. The system responds. Eniko documents and weaves.
03 Output + public presentation Days 18–21
Finalisation. Pattern prints, textile works, live signal.
Intimate public showing, Drammen venue.
Note
This is an artistic investigation, not a scientific study.
The entire material footprint fits in two carry-on bags.
Developed under A.T.R.U.E. — Signal Systems, Budapest.