Is it possible?
Apparently yes!
I am always interested in the science of things. Brain waves are radio waves. Sonification exists. But how?
I started researching dreams sonification.
http://www.nouspace.net/john/archive/dreamcycle/dreamcycle.html
Gerold Baier (University of Manchester) and Thomas Hermann (Bielefeld University) performed within the contemporary music festival Wien Modern 2008, as opening event of the Wien Modern 2008 series “MUSIC & THE BRAIN”, Vienna. [1]
The authors presented at this opening event of the theme “Music & the Brain” a novel technique to make the activity of the human brain audible and thereby intuitively graspable. Sonification enables a new access to the phenomena of normal and pathologic dynamics of the brain. Input signals are the electric activity of the brain measured with electroencephalography (EEG).[1] The article includes mp3 files of the results.
But Alvin Lucier started experimenting with this way earlier in a piece called ‘Music for the Solo Performer’.
The mechanics of the piece were deceptively simple: alpha brain waves are picked up from electrodes attached to the performer, and the low frequency thumps (typically between 9-15 hertz) are first sent into amplifiers to greatly magnify the pulses’ volume. Then, a bandpass filter cleans up the signal, which is sent by a second performer at a mixing board through a number of loudspeakers attached to percussion instruments and other objects to be activated by these massive, low frequency thumps. [2]
How could I use this technique?
A Muse EEG Headset? Max for Live.
Not for now.
[1] https://www.cit-ec.de/en/ami/live-experiment-sonification-human-eeg
[2] https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/05/alvin-lucier-music-for-solo-performer