Cortical Echoes
2026-
Cortical Echoes is a live performance-installation by Amy Karle and Eduardo Reck Miranda that transforms living neural activity into music, synthetic speech, and responsive visual environments. Bridging bioart, biological computing, AI, neuroscience, and experimental media, the project makes emerging forms of living intelligence publicly experiential, ethically legible, and culturally resonant.
Cortical Echoes is a live performance-installation and art research system by Amy Karle and Eduardo Reck Miranda that makes biological computing publicly legible through sound, language, and light. Working with living neurons cultured on multi-electrode arrays, the project creates a three-way dialogue between human performers, digital translation systems, and living neural activity, transforming biological signals into evolving music, synthetic speech, and responsive visual environments.
The work uses musical input mapped to stimulation patterns inspired by the tonotopic organization of the auditory cortex. Neuronal responses are captured as spike activity and translated into audiovisual form, including sound structures, speech synthesis, raster-based visualizations, and immersive light environments. What emerges is not a representation of intelligence, but an encounter with living computation as process, variability, relation, and response.
Cortical Echoes explores how creativity, agency, and authorship shift when the responding system is alive. It asks how biological intelligence, machine systems, and human intention might co-create, and what kinds of ethical, aesthetic, and cultural frameworks are needed as post-silicon forms of intelligence begin to enter public life. The project positions art as a civic and sensory interface for emerging biocomputing, making frontier research experiential, visible, and open to reflection.
Developed across biocomputing, artificial intelligence, experimental music, bioart, biodesign, neuroscience, new media art, and computational media, Cortical Echoes is designed for performance in museums, biennials, festivals, and research-driven public platforms.Â
It brings together Amy Karle’s practice in bioart, AI, visual systems, and ethical inquiry with Eduardo Reck Miranda’s pioneering work in AI music, brain-computer music interfacing, and biological computing for sound. Together, the project proposes a new artistic and cultural interface for living intelligence.