The first of its kind, INDIGOISM introduces brain entrainment to the public through this digital showcase piece combining binaural beats produced by Jean Reiki (Mind of the Cosmos), and virtual reality by Warrior9 through the immersive digital experience that is DRONE.
DRONE is a short sampling meant as an introduction to brain entrainment, a technique that stimulates the brain into specific states such as enhanced concentration, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction using a pulsing sound, light or electromagnetic field. This project utilizes binaural beats through audio stimulation to evoke the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response encouraging brain waves to align to the frequency of the pulse, thus inducing the aforementioned altered states.
The DRONE project contains traces of binaural beats in this 2-minute track. By then, the accompanying audio and visual elements would have occupied the senses fully, helping the individual relax with an end goal of escaping reality for just a little while.
Adding another artistic element to the project, the DRONE audio-visual booth was conceptualized by visual artists Soph O and Sam Lo (INDIGOISM). Taking cues from Archifest’s zero-waste theme, the booth features daybeds made from cardboard and other found packing materials from the artists’ studios. The result is a massive art jam featuring aural, digital and physical 3D artwork.
The DRONE Travels
Archifest 2016 @ Raffles Place
24- 30 September 2016, 9am-7pm
Note
The brainwave entrainment function only takes effect after an individual is continually exposed to binaural beats for at least 15 minutes. The DRONE project runs for a maximum of 2 minutes, and therefore has little to no effect on the individual. This project is meant as a sampling, an introduction to binaural beats and brain entrainment. If you would like to further explore brain entrainment and what it can do for you, do visit the archive of binaural beats by Mind of the Cosmos at INDIGOISM.
About the Elevate platform by INDIGOISM:
Elevate is an experimental platform under the INDIGOISM umbrella focusing on soundscapes and digital arts. It was created based on research that demonstrates the mind’s ability to alter states through exposure to different frequencies. Not to be mistaken for the familiar, each beat/ mix was formulated based on these principles :
- Brainwave entrainment
- Ancient Solfeggio frequencies
Elevate is a constant work in progress, a research project as we learn more about these methods in restoring balance to the inner core. Each beat is different and reception to these beats may differ from individual to individual.
For more information on binaural beats and the Elevate project, visit :
About INDIGOISM:
A social enterprise set up as a collaborative platform to build a community based on togetherness, sustainability and wonder. They realise projects that go against the grain to open up new possibilities and offer alternative views of the world around us in an effort to investigate and better our understanding of the nature of things.
The projects they embark on are collective efforts of the creative community bound together by similar mindsets and a common end goal. The themes and mediums they create with are vast and varied, each serving as an artwork in its own right; a reaction and reflection of our current times.
While hoping to create a self-sustainable model where social and environmental well-being are maximised in creating new products and introducing engaging experiences with their collaborators, in the process, they create a wide network of collaborators of whom they are blessed to call their community, who they constantly work with to realise new ideas, and new possibilities.
About the Artists:
Race Krehel
Race Krehel has been living and working in Singapore for 8 years in a wide spectrum of visual arts. From creating content and executing world class events for global brands, making music videos for local acts, outfitting the biggest clubs in the region with cutting edge projection mapping and visuals or creating interactive installations, Race has been heavily involved in the SE Asian creative scene on all levels. Currently he is working at Warrior9 where he is using the latest technology to bring stories to life through the medium of Virtual Reality.
Passionate about film and its power to transform us, Warrior9 was created by a scriptwriter, a producer and a filmmaker because of a shared belief that “changing the world frame by frame” is not only possible, it is imperative.
Jean Reiki / Mind of the Cosmos
Born and raised in Singapore, DJ and producer Jean Reiki was a vinyl-collector who stumbled upon Hard Hops and Nu-Skool Breaks at the tail-end of the 90s. Her style of DJing gradually developed, resulting in a wide gamut of musical genres in her sets and cemented her a place at London’s Point Blank’s Top Female DJs and Ones To Watch for 2012. To date, Reiki has a quarterly mixshow residency on Lush 99.5 FM radio. She is also 1/3 of DatDatDat, running ad hoc nights welcoming an array of guests to crank up a heady mix of party vibes.
Music curation aside, her compositions and remixes gained notable attention with her work featured in far corners of the world, from Nick Luscombe’s Late Junction playlist on BBC Radio 3, Shiso Room on FutureMusicFM, Copenhagen’s The Lake radio, Berlin’s Not Your Girlfriend show on BLM.FM, Hyper Juice show on Japan’s Block FM, Stateside’s Gizmodo Home of The Future and San Jose Museum of Art, producers showcase on Malaysia’s Midnight Oil to local film trailer, ‘Trash Heaven’. Other work has garnered her the 3rd spot at the Creative Destruction Contest organised by the Peranakan Museum Singapore and nominations for the ‘Best Genre Bender’ category at the Asia music awards, VIMA.
Always exploring new terrain, she has collaborated with ethnic instrumentalists, SA to herald improvisation over one another’s material in Sonic Sessions Vol.1, a live performance streaming to an online audience via Stageit platform. 2016 also sees her releasing binaural beats + 3D nature and ambient music hybrid for the Elevate label by Indigoism and a Soundart EP entitled ‘Whimsy’.
