Through my interviews with the varied psychologists I had connected with, I was becoming more and more interested in what was going on in our brains when we connected or ‘resonated’ with something or someone. I thought it would be interesting to play with a brain wave scanner to explore what it might look like to be on the same ‘wavelength’ as someone else. In my discussions with the psychologists I found no one had a specific understanding of why we connect with people the way we do and what is happening in the brain when we connect. What does it look like when you are ‘resonating’?

I borrowed a friend’s NeuroSky Mindwave and began in my first attempts to get it working. I found an app called BrainWaveOSC, built by Trent Brooks, that took the data from the NeuroSky Mindwave and translated it into OSC messages. Trent Brooks also had a Max MSP patch that routed all the messages. I installed the drivers for the Mindwave and followed his directions and was soon seeing the brainwave data flow into Max MSP.