Re: Brainorchestra

In this previous post I said "it would be one thing if brainwaves were being interpreted into sound." Well, apparently that's what's going on in this video (well, not necessarily brainwaves, "but electrical activity along the scalp produced by the firing of neurons within the brain"):

EEG sound sample from nik on Vimeo.

Human brainwaves from eeg data amplified to audible and converted into audible sound. The video is unrelated to the audio.

Via.

Brainorchestra.

Music triggered by brain activity:



This is really cool, yes, but I imagine that witnessing this live wouldn't be so great...I mean, you'd just be staring at people sitting on stage staring into screens and such. Also, I'm pretty sure you can program anything to be triggered by anything. It would be one thing if brainwaves were being interpreted into sound, but I'm not sure that's what's going on here.

Article here, via Make.

Sound, Speech, Sine Waves, Perception, and our Brains.

This stuff is kind of hard to explain, but once you experience it, it will be very clear.

First, listen carefully to Sound Clip A. What does it sound like?
Now listen to Sound Clip B. Then, listen to clip A once again.

Crazy huh?

Here are a bunch more just like that, exact same procedure:
Clip A ------> Clip B
Clip A ------> Clip B
Clip A ------> Clip B
Clip A ------> Clip B

These are all from Matt Davis's article An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech.

Via the Music of Sound.