(Please wear headphones unless you have high quality monitors. Binaural Beats and subharmonic brainwave phase frequencies can not be heard with regular speakers.)

“Scientific Emotions”, created by TakT, is conceived as a psychological and scientific art experience that is meant to invite its audience into an exploration of human emotions. Scientific Emotions brings forth a combination of scientifically created elements and the study and implementation of scientific theory on brainwave frequencies through the vehicle of an artistic audiovisual medium.

To understand and explain scientific concepts, visual data is used as proof of deductive reasoning in almost every scientific discipline. Theories, experimentation and implementation is usually presented through the use of symbols, drawings, sketches, apps, diagrams, medical imagery, photos and videos. These images always have a scientific purpose but are rarely considered artistic. The visual data shown in science generally appears as a form of evidence for various hypotheses, not as art that can connect to the emotional psyche of a human. Scientific Emotions aims to change this first purpose and to offer a new point of view on these images.

TakT uses real data and video they get from Science labs so that the information curated are scientifically accurate. By using scientific imagery as the primary material to express feelings, Scientific Emotions will reveal the scientific process of what occurs during different emotional states and the reactions that transpire during the changing of those states. Examples include happiness to fear or sadness to excitement. Audience members get to experience an artistic evocation of what is physically and mentally happening inside them during the emotional rollercoaster we call life.

In addition to the scientific data shown through visuals, TakT will be mixing in scientific studies and theories of brainwave frequencies into the music to subconsciously induce feelings and states of mind to reflect the emotions and chemical reactions they are watching.

A theory by the name of FFR “Frequency Following Response” was first developed in the USA in the 1960s by Robert Monroe. FFR stipulates that the human brain oscillates electrical wave patterns of various frequencies which have been proven through a multitude of neurological studies around the world to induce different emotional states.

The five main sets of brainwave frequencies, that have been widely used in scientific studies and experimentations, to induce mood states are: gamma, beta, alpha, theta, and delta. Speakers and headphones can not transmit frequencies that low so TakT has used the theory of “Binaural Beats” so that the audience can subconsciously hear the frequencies..

Any frequency below 20 HZ (cycles per second) are inaudible to the conscious human ear. What Binaural Beats does is send two slightly different frequency tones to each ear separately which the brain automatically subtracts against each other and perceives a single tone. An example would be if one were to send 200 HZ to one ear and 210 HZ to the other, the ear would subtract the two frequencies and give a subconscious tone of 10hz. This allows Scientific Emotions to infuse the frequencies inside the songs created for each set of emotions.

Many of the frequencies picked to induce moods will come from studies done by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Other frequencies used will come through various in field research done. An example would be one done by engineer Vic Tandy, who tested and implemented a theory that 19 HZ (which is in the range known as infrasound) can cause emotional responses such as discomfort, dizziness and fear.

The scientific images used to create this project come from different periods, places and disciplines. As they are mixed together and used outside of their original scientific purpose, they are given a new meaning and aesthetic. Most of the images were made with a purpose; to describe and understand abstract and unverifiable emotions by observing their physical traduction. Scientific Emotions flips this around by turning clear studies into more abstract forms of artistic expression.

Scientific Emotions allows people to form a new connection and outlook to science by transforming emotionless science into artistic immersion. These videos aims to induce onto its’ audience the same wide array of emotions and feelings that they are learning about through an artistic lens of scientific visual data. The scientific videos created by TakT will illustrate, in a multitude of ways, what happens biologically, chemically and psychologically in our body when we feel our emotions. The purpose is to transmit the symptoms and observational results of emotional feelings through the prism of scientific data. Beyond intellectual learning, the audience will get to emotionally connect to the scientific data through TakT’s artistic expression.