Noor – A Brain Opera by Ellen Pearlman

Noor is a fully immersive brain opera in 360-degree theatre, where a performer launches video, a sonic environment, and a libretto through her brain activity. The world premier was at ISEA 2016 Hong Kong on May 18^th, with a second run at the Microwave Festival in Hong Kong on May 27^th. Noor is an original ‘brain opera’. Though artists have been working with EEGs producing musical events, no one has ever created a full audio visual brain opera. Using the EPOC+ headset, the performer’s emotional states, at various times, launch digital databanks of video, audio and spoken word enabled events while simultaneously displaying the performer’s brainwaves in real-time for audience viewing. Artist Bio Ellen Pearlman is a doctoral candidate at the School of Creative Media at Hong Kong City University, and Director and Curator of the Volumetric Society of New York, and President of Art-A-Hack ™ that brings artists and technologists together to make something new. See the Full Coverage Here