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Nathalie Bonin
Creator: Composer: Violinist: Artistic DirectorLeads the artistic vision, music, performance, dramaturgy, audience journey and integration of every element.
QOR™
Quantum Organic Reality
Connected Art
Shared presence
Where inner states become shared art.
A living immersive performance created by award-winning violinist and composer Nathalie Bonin, QOR brings together live music, breath, movement, audience biometrics, spatial sound and responsive visuals.
The audience is no longer only watching: its presence becomes part of the artwork.
The central question
What if the audience could become part of the composition?
Not through a screen or controller—but through breath, attention and presence.
Selected audience members wear non-invasive biometric devices while Nathalie performs live. Their changing physiological signals become creative material, influencing a responsive world of image, movement and sound.
The technology is designed to recede. QOR is not a data demonstration or a conventional concert: it is an embodied, music-led environment where human presence becomes visible.
Inside QOR
A journey from attention to connection
Live violin and original cinematic music guide the emotional arc. Breath and movement help participants arrive in the body. A small biometric cohort helps shape a shared visual and sonic environment for the entire room.
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Arrive
Breath, movement and voice create a threshold into shared attention.
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Listen
Live violin and original music shape the dramatic journey.
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Sense
Selected participants contribute real-time physiological signals.
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Transform
Custom systems translate change into visual and sonic gestures.
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Connect
Individual responses become part of a larger field experienced together.
The story so far
Explore the journey from Biometric Study to Connected Art to QOR
QOR grew from Nathalie Bonin’s decades of experience as a violinist and composer—and from her lifelong curiosity about science, technology and the body. After asking, “What if the audience could co-create with the performer?” at Infinity Festival in 2024, she began a series of studies, performances and public activations exploring how music, embodied preparation and physiological signals could become one evolving artwork.
Select a chapter to follow the story.
2024: OriginThe first question on stage
At Infinity Festival, Nathalie first asked: “What if the audience could co-create with the performer?”
2025: Phase 1The first repeated study
Four weeks at The KINN explored live violin, breath, movement and wearable sensing with eight participants.
2025: Phase 1Data meets lived experience
Early visual summaries began connecting participant reflections with changing physiological patterns.
2025: VIP SharingThe work enters a room
A small biometric cohort and invited audience tested how the developing concept could be shared publicly.
2025: Phase 2The collective arc expands
Two days at Veritas Yoga tested heart meditation, movement, breathwork and group response with 23 participants.
2026: Connected Art LaunchPhysiology becomes live art
EEG participants, live violin and responsive visuals brought the feedback loop into public view.
2026: Joy Fest LAA more intimate format
Eight rapid-format sessions explored how QOR could welcome new audiences into a compact experience.
2026: IACS LabThe system grows
Lab development advanced multi-participant capture, signal quality and the relationship between data and artistic cues.
2026: CommunityAn interdisciplinary room
Artists, scientists, technologists, advocates and participants gathered around a shared vision for connected art.
2026: Public ConversationThe story reaches outward
Panels, interviews and public dialogue expanded the conversation around immersive art, wellness and human connection.
2026: RecognitionA growing public profile
Press, festival appearances and recognition helped build momentum for QOR’s next stage.
Next ChapterCo-create the future
QOR now moves toward larger immersive venues, international presentation and a growing community of partners.
What the first three phases revealed
Early signals. A shared artistic journey.
Each phase brought QOR closer to a core artistic idea: a room can move through a shared arc while every participant remains distinctly themselves.
4 weeksRepeated artistic-development sessions
8Participants
90 minPer session
Phase 1: Repeated sessions at The KINN
Live violin, guided breath and movement coincided with visible shifts in participants’ nervous-system patterns—the first sign that an audience’s inner state could become part of the artwork.
Week 1Establish individual baselines
Week 2Observe response to music and breath
Week 3Refine movement and pacing
Week 4Connect lived experience with signals
| What was tested | What emerged | What it changed |
|---|---|---|
| Live violin, breathwork, movement and wearables | Visible changes across repeated sessions | Established the first artistic proof that physiology could become creative material |
+18.6Post-session increase in breathing coherence from baseline
-8.9Post-session change in group tension index from baseline
23Participants across the Phase 2 weekend
Phase 2: Expanded group experience
Heart meditation: group phase averages
The clearest Phase 2 session showed tension easing as breathing coherence increased.
Tension indexBreathing coherence
| Heart meditation | Tension index | Breathing coherence |
|---|---|---|
| Before | 93.9 | 29.0 |
| During | 87.5 | 44.3 |
| After | 85.0 | 47.6 |
The strongest session helped define QOR’s emerging journey: activation can give way to coherence, absorption and settling.
7 / 7Usable pulse and movement streams settled during the final Cadenza
6 / 6Clean EEG streams shifted in the same direction when live violin entered
~6 bpmMedian heart-rate change into the final Cadenza
Phase 3: Multi-participant development at IACS
| Signal | Most promising pattern | Participant experience |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse and movement | Collective settling during the final violin Cadenza | Deep relaxation, peaceful flow and timelessness |
| Exploratory EEG | Shared directional shift at the live-violin entrance | Color, floating and heightened absorption |
| Embodied preparation | Movement and breath helped participants arrive in the body | Greater readiness to receive the music |
These exploratory artistic-development findings guide QOR’s evolution. They are not clinical claims, and they do not establish direct brain-to-brain synchrony.
Core collaborators
A project built through artistry, science and care
QOR is artist-led and intentionally interdisciplinary. Its core collaborators shape the music, biometric systems, responsive media, embodied preparation and public conversation that make the experience possible.
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Nicco Reggente, PhD
IACS: Research & Biometric SystemsProvides continuity from earlier phases, biometric-capture expertise, technical guidance and research perspective.
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Jonathan Burow
Software & Real-Time IntegrationBuilds the bridge between biometric capture and responsive media through custom software, routing and cue integration.
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Jun “Jimmz” Zhang
Digital FUN: Responsive VisualsDevelops TouchDesigner-based visual systems and immersive media under Nathalie’s artistic direction.
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Arup SoundLab Team
Current Phase Sponsor & Development PartnerProvides a specialized environment for repeated spatial-sound, audiovisual and immersive testing that supports QOR’s ongoing development.
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Dr. Mitch Abrams
Guest Contributor: Connected WellnessContributes perspectives on heart-brain coherence, compassion, wellness and the role of connected communities.
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Robert Bahedry
Breathwork FacilitatorHelps shape and guide the embodied transition into presence, receptivity and deeper listening.
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Chris Tai
Movement FacilitatorSupports embodied preparation, guided movement and the transition into shared attention.
Volunteers, interns and a growing circle of contributors
Participant welcome, headset fitting, logistics, documentation, production and activation care are increasingly supported by a wider community of artists, advocates, advisors and early audiences.
Support and partnerships
Made possible through shared belief
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Supported by
Developed and presented with
Digital FUN
Infinity Festival Hollywood
The KINN
Veritas Yoga
Labyrinth Ball
Revive Artist LaunchWith thanks to supporters and contributors
Audilla
EMOTIV
Imagine Healthcare
JAXA Production
National Angel Capital Organization
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NexGen Health
Normal Studio
NoukiiMedia and community support
Life Changes
Live With Purpose
Healthy SeminarsSupport, participation and involvement vary by project phase.
Co-create the future
Bring QOR into a new space
QOR is seeking presenting partners, immersive venues, festivals, research collaborators, sponsors and communities interested in developing more human forms of responsive art.
QOR is an artistic experience and an evolving creative research practice. It is not a medical diagnostic or treatment.