Dream Brain Waves Sonification

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

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