Harnessing brainwaves to create an atmosphere of chakra-healing music and hypnotic light scupltures
A meditation nightclub would seem at first glance a ropey oxymoron, however on closer inspection, perhaps they're exactly what we need to balance our fraught lifestyles.

New York-based artist Lia Chavez has collaborated with London creative technology company rehabstudio to create a pop-up nightclub in P3Studio, the art gallery of luxury hotel The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Combining performance art, neuroscience and technological invention, The Octave of Visible Light: A Meditation Nightclub invites guests to explore the wondrous nature of oscillatory resonance throughout the universe.

Guests are invited to wear an EEG headset while Chavez guides them through a brief meditation session. Brainwaves are harnessed to orchestrate an atmosphere of chakra-healing music and hypnotic light sculptures, which envisage the mystical optics described in Dante’s final vision of paradise in “The Divine Comedy.”

The headset reads their brainwaves and, via bluetooth, transmits a custom-coded signal to the audio visual system. The signal’s frequency and strength mirrors the participant’s brainwave activity, which is reflected in the intensity and register of the colour and sound emitted by the system. As a result, each audio-visual ‘set’ is unique to the person wearing the headset. The deeper the meditation, the more fully the viewer is able to traverse the spectrum of visible light and sound.

Furl is another example of an artist visualising brainwaves, this time Bijing Zhang and Francois Mangion create models of kinetic interactive pavilions by combining electroencephalography (EEG) with silicon casting.