The Committee to Nuke Elysium

Inspired by Dr Mick Grierson at Goldsmiths, University of London, who specialises in real-time interactive audiovisual research with a focus on cognition and perception, the Music Of The Mind project uses Brain Computer Interface technology and new software which claims to allow musicians to “think music into being.”

Peters and his musicians will dress in lab coats and will control instruments utilising the technology to perform new compositions which have titles such as ‘Agitation’, ‘Brain Solo’, ‘Meditation’ and ‘Oxygen’. The track ‘Sleep Music’ from the album, for instance, has a washy, slow feel, building gently to a drum part with a strong emphasis on the fourth beat opening up for the horns to inhabit closely arranged harmonic territory before transforming, and almost disappearing, into the smoke of the sound.