Alpha Wave Experience is an art collective working on the reinterpretation of Bryon Gysin’s Dreamachine. A rotating light installation that triggers the brain and optic nerve, inducing alpha wave frequencies through flickering light effects.
Dan Ghenacia is the leader of the multidisciplinary art collective Alpha Wave Experience. The collective brings the minds of various different practices and skills, ranging from art to science, music to wellness. Collective members include:
Tolga Fidan - Music Producer
Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkish-French producer Tolga Fidan's starting musical influences ranged from experimental rock to hip-hop.
Early on he relocated to London to pursue photography and video arts studies at the University of the Arts London. The artistic mediums and passion then shifted towards electronic music, as Tolga began producing upon the discovery of Warp Records and being fully immersed in the UK music scene.
At just age 25, he released his first record under the label "Vakant" which caught the attention of big names, including Sven Vath. After this instant praise, Tolga began touring extensively all over the world and started his own label TFR.
From 2006 onwards, he has been steadily releasing a wide spectrum of electronic music and has been in the last year focusing, with Dan Ghenacia, on their multidisciplinary art project The Alpha Wave Experience. As their other project, named as sound design duo Art Of Wave, they have already collaborated with several artists for the sound design for specific pieces in world-wide exhibitions (artists include Ana Popescu, Matthieu Chavarin, Andres Ciconne and more).
Anine Kirsten - Industrial Designer
Raised in South Africa, in a cradle of wild dreams, by an artist and engineer duo equipped Anine with the perfect balance of creativity, logic, and imagination needed to take ideas and transform them into tangible and unique objects.
Through her career in industrial design she developed a rare sensibility to understand what inspires imagination and dived deeper into the source by working as a toy designer for five years. Instilled with a strong desire to colour other childhood dreams she became Inventor and imagineer best known for co-inventing Nimuno loops aka Lego Tape in 2017 which was subsequently Nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year Award in 2018 and Toy of the Year Award in 2019.
Following this path of exploration and a desire to grow imagination led her to relocate to Lisbon in 2020 to pursue a career more focused on art and the design and creation of unique objects. From creating toys for kids the next logical step was to create wonderful objects that would inspire dreams in adults - after all why should kids have all the fun ?
Her work has most notably been featured in Time Magazine, DesignBoom, Wallpaper and Gizmodo to mention a few.
Dimitri Thouzery - Industrial Designer
Dimitri Thouzery is a new media artist, interactive and immersive experience designer. He has been working in the field of art and design for over a decade and since 2017 he has been going deeper into the world of new media art.
He likes to explore new ways for interactivity, using various sensors and databases to create new user experiences. He sees in these new systems a way for the user to connect to something universal and to question reality.
One of his most recent and iconic NFT collections is "Moments". Each Moment is a picture taken at the exact same moment of a generative system using looping noises functions moving instanced cubes on a uv-map. The system is using variations on 6 different parameters (or group of parameters) to generate 1350 unique artworks. Each possible combination of parameters are taken.
Francisco Teixeira - Neuroscientist
Francisco is a trained psychologist with a master's degree in neurosciences very focused from early times on the study of brain frequencies and how sound, visuals and light can influence these frequencies to better understand the psychophysics of music and visual art and its influence on psychophysiological states. As a clinical psychologist he focused himself in applying his research in the field of clinical Neurofeedback and multi-sensory immersive therapies. He is the founder of MuLabs, which cooperates with the Alpha Wave Experience in conducting scientific research to study the neural impact that the art pieces created can have on the brain.
Javier Ferrer - 3D Sound Expert
Javier Ferrer is a music producer, sound engineer & CEO of Metrica Recording Studio. Originally from the island of Ibiza, Javier grew up in the epicentre of electronic music which meant that he was surrounded by music in all its forms from an early age. All of this served as inspiration for him to get into the world of musical creation. For the collective, he masters the craft of creating 3D sound which makes the Alpha Wave Experience evermore immersive.