* 2017 -
Renowned international harpist Hélène Breschand and Kerwin Rolland are developing a musical langage based on a sensible artistic research and neuroscience. Their compositions are made of sound signals, brainwaves, musical forms, rhythms, spoken words, and whispers, that are activating specific brain regions. The duo thus induces peculiar states of consciousness (such as enhanced focus, day dreaming, recall, deep relaxation, or euphoria).
Far more than concerts their performances are designed as "collective sessions" where the audience is invited to give free rein to its imagination, thoughts, mind pictures, or even relief. The public is thus driven into creating its own mind travel.
Hélène and Kerwin not only aims at the brain but also takes into account the surrounding vibrations of the architecture, adapting their music to each venue and performing in atypical spaces and contexts.
In 2021 they release Rivages, here on bandcamp. The opus reveals six cinematographic short “sound trips” exploring ASMR and meditation techniques.
In 2016 the duo performed Temporal at Radio France's studio 106. The piece is named after a brain region and its score consist in a timed travel through four regions of the human brain. Here is the Binaural recording of this piece.