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I recently heard an audio version of an EEG of a person
listening to 'Smoke On The Water'. It sounded very
much like a muffled version of 'Smoke On The Water'
itself.
Now, we're going to need to do one little leap of faith
here which i can't really justify, which is this: if you
imagine
a piece of music vividly enough, say if you're
actually a professional musician, somewhere in your
brain there will be electrical activity which corresponds
to the music and can be converted to the relevant sound.
Happy with that? Maybe not - i'm not, after all.
Right, so you then get your drummer, bass player,
keyboardist, vocalist or whoever, and you wire them up
to EEGs, perhaps using electrodes inserted directly into
the auditory centres of the brain. You send that
information to a computer and a PA system. Then, you
give them ear protectors and you get them to imagine,
possibly with the help of mind-altering chemicals, that
they are playing their instruments or singing. If you
can't do it that way, maybe you monitor the electrical
activity of their larynx or arm and hand muscles. You
then convert it into sound. The musicians sit there,
imagining that they're playing their instruments, and a
concert ensues.
See [AutoMcDonough]'s anno for the name change.
Cardiac rhythms synchronize with music
http://www.theheart.org/article/982997.do
[Klaatu, Mar 12 2010]
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It might help if you fed them a metronome tick, so they didn't have to concentrate on the tempo. [+] |
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Hmm, i did isolate them auditorily because i wondered if they'd all have seizures if they heard their own brains, but clearly a metronome would be a good solution to that. |
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This was done in (I think) Neuromancer, cyberpunk books. |
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This could be the beginning of something big if we're not
careful. |
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you'd need more contact points, thus more EEG device thin wire filaments connected to the scalp, thus... hair guitar. |
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[nineteenthly] For this, I think you don't want auditory
centers -- you
want mirror neuron regions. And forget EEG -- you want
magnetoencephalography. Apart from being necessary (I
think), it's also much cooler than EEG (*much* cooler --
liquid helium, in fact). |
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If you could convince a record company to produce this,
you'd have a way to pay for a center with multiple MEG
machines all in one place. Then, after the musicians got
bored with it, the neuroscientists would get to play with
them! |
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" recently heard an audio version of an EEG of a person ". [nineteenthly], any way you could share that recording with us? |
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I wonder what the EEG would sound like if one person was doing jumping jacks, another was reading, and a third was getting spanked. |
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OK, [mouseposture], i'll look into that. I'm vaguely aware of what you're talking about. |
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[Normzone], it was on Radio Four but i can't remember exactly what. I'll go and have a poke around. It was a bit odd because it sounded quite like that simulation of what 'Smoke On The Water' would sound like on Titan. |
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[AutoMcDonough], come to think of it that sort of thing could be a more arty version and i might even prefer it to my original idea. |
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It would be cool if the audience could also link in their thoughts and add to the background droning. I see this applied to metal and / or techno. |
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Yes, but i'm ambivalent about the idea of experiencing the music and producing it simultaneously. I think it would risk seizures, but going along with an emo/goth way of looking at it, maybe seizures would actually be seen as desirable by certain fans. |
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I automatically love anything that can justify the name "Hair Guitar" |
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Right, i'll change the name. |
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How much did you pay for the assertiveness training classes, [nineteenthly] ? Or did you just give them whatever they asked for ? |
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You are SO easy to influence... |
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