brainmusic: fmri into musical sound

[jreid641]

Interesting.



[reynouts]

Cool project! Sounds good with the pentatonic scale. It would be fun to extract repeating music patterns that occur from these examples and make real songs out of it!

[dreamsofeden]

@Jdonovanford

i wonder what your brain sounded like while you were typing that?

[Jdonovanford]

Assigning pentatonic scale to the signal... is not impressive, it is always gonna sound consonant and random. Give a child a bunch of pentatonic keys and will sound nice too... So this is a bit pointless... is money being invested in this kind of waste of time?

[dlloyd1984]

@Jdonovanford No investment; it's strictly a hobby.

[dreamsofeden]

@Jdonovanford

i wonder what your brain sounded like while you were typing that?

[Jdonovanford]

@dreamsofeden Me too.

[theoriginalmcsquare]

I was surprised, I didn't expect so many structured patterns in it, but u can actually call this music

[Qasimbajwaa]

the human mind is an amazing thing

[acrackinthemold]

This is awesome! Also the kind of science I'd love to volunteer for!

[jsymons1985]

What does OBS, FIX, and DRIVE mean?

[dlloyd1984]

@jsymons1985

Observe, Fixate, and Drive. These data are from a simulated driving experiment, where Drive means what you'd expect. Observe means watching a visual scene just like driving, without doing anything -- like being a passenger in a car. Fixate = lie there in the dark looking at a plus sign. Hope this is helpful.

[nickrohn93]

Does it actually have some rhythm or am i insane?

[Asshamburgers]

It does, it sounds good, not like garbage data.

[KarmaPaymentplann]

Of course....

[nickrohn93]

would that infer that we think in patterns

[XV24]

my brain wrote that first, & I've got the copyrights!!

see you in court

[momomcfly]

Hi. I'm a French student and I'm working on a powerpoint presentation about your fMRI research and I was just wondering what the sick brain suffers from? Thanks in advance

[dlloyd1984]

In this video, the brain on screen is healthy (and mine). In other videos on this channel the data comes from schizophrenia patients. In "Listening to the Dynamic Brain" one example is from a subject with mild dementia. Also see the 6-part lecture for a full discussion and screen shots that you may find useful. Thanks for your interest.

[momomcfly]

OK. Thanks a lot for the quick answer and good luck in you future research!

[yuanobmo]

I suffer from headaches...... supposedly due to occipital neuralgia, I wonder if this could help ease my suffering.....

[pepoaraujo101]

Simply unbelievable!!

I've been thinking - if this is the result of MRI brain scans, so it could be made over the images gathered from anyone, couldn't it?

In one word, fantastic! Congratulations! ^^

[ashley41430]

I am a musician, and I've always been interested in how music effects our minds, which is why I came across this video. And while that is not exactly the point of this video, I find it fascinating that you thought to do this, and incredible. You should notate and publish this! you could divide it into movements, using schizophrenic patients' brains for contrasting sections, or something like that. But enough of my rambling-this is very fascinating and incredible! Thank you for sharing.

[JRS1584]

wow...I find this video amazing. It sounds like you have figured out how to read peoples minds through music...Try listen and scann a brain that ticks...like with a patient who has tourettes syndrome

[puros33]

Hi and sorry for my English, I found this absolutely amazing! thanks god there still out there some people trying to make this world a better place to live helping us to understand more our selfs with studies and projects like this one. have you record a musician's brains while he's playing?.

[W4RW017]

Is it in a certain scale or just chromatic?

[dlloyd1984]

Most of these use a 5-tone (pentatonic) scale over several octaves. The assignment of regions to tones is arbitrary. "Brain blues" uses a slightly different scale, with a blue note added. These tracks can be rendered in any scale one can imagine.

[W4RW017]

Hm, but blues and pentatonic scale is the same now isn't it? You're not thinking of chromatic?

[dlloyd1984]

The pentatonic scale used is approximately C, D# , F. G, A#. The added note for the "blues" is F#. I've made tracks with chromatic scales (and random frequencies, and overtones, and...), but these are not posted in the videos.

[Bekhbo]

My brain make a better music...

[abarefootboy]

i like it .. sounds like home

[sarasal51]

Maybe that's why music is a universal language.

[glstfamily]

pleasant sounding

[greenmagoos]

Nice.

Thanks for uploaing.