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We’ve talked about brain music before - everything from brain music therapy to binaural brain beat synthesizers to hardcore brain-controlled synth action to bogus stories about dudes controlling synths with mind bullets.
It’s hard to believe, but it looks like there may be a commercial future for brain music medicine.
According to a Fox News report, Dr. [...]

 

Got a brain? Then you can make music!
At the UK Aldeburgh Festival, set for June 13-29, Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin is going to be demonstrating the latest brain music action.
This isn’t like controlling modular synthesizers with mind bullets, though.
According to the Telegraph, you simply “let a skilled assistant fasten electrodes to your head, relax and [...]

 

Gnaural is a multi-platform programmable binaural-beat generator, implementing the principle of binaural beats as described in the October 1973 Scientific American article Auditory Beats in the Brain (Gerald Oster).
It can be used to synthesize sounds that affect the brain. Here’s a demo. It should be listened to using headphones:

 
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The central theme of Oster’s article is [...]

 

Here’s the weirdest thing you’re likely to see today - Sleep Waking - a robot that does interpretive dancing based on your brainwaves.
Here’s what creator Fernando Orellana has to say about the project:

In the next thirty years we will see more robotic technology integrated into our society, furthering our experience of reality through agency. [...]

 

Mick Grierson offers this video of his brain-controlled music interface in action:

“This video shows me demoing my initial Brain Computer Music Interface. There are many ways that I can improve this system (it’s still a bit slow at the moment), but I think it demonstrates the potential of the idea well enough. This video was [...]

 

The Houston Chronicle has an interesting article that looks at Brain Music Therapy, the medical practice of using brain waves to generate music to help people relax.
“Your brain is actually listening to the best of itself,” said William Wade, a psychotherapist who offers Brain Music Therapy at his practice, the Institute for Family Psychology, [...]

 

Krischall demonstrates how to use brain power to control a modular synthesizer.
By connecting a biofeedback helmet to a 1970s E-mu Matrix synth, the device is able to generate sounds just by thinking about them.
Actually - although this looks well within the realm of possibility - Krischall’s mind bullet experiment owes more to Photoshop than neurology.
Let [...]