Brain Computer Interface - Playing the piano

[metabog]

This is real, check out Eduardo R. Miranda's paper "Brain-Computer Music Interface for Generative Music". It documents the way it works. The guy who put the video up describes it wrong, he's not directly pressing keys with his mind, he's playing it rather indirectly, but still playing it, and has control over it.

[cre599]

I wanna try it!!!!!!!! :D

[guypie]

Guys, This is actually real, I'm doing a project based on this technology for my degree. When you think of certain notes, your brain acts differently, gives off a different waveform characteristic, you use this waveform picked up by the EEG to send to Max msp and then design a patch that applies a note to the waveform created by your brain when you think of note A for example. The hard part is writing the software.

[guyboy625]

This is the future though.

[wwwtotalitaerde]

This may only be done with high resolution braintapping through heterodyn laser or radar techniques. Check out my channel and homepage.

[matt884987]

If this is not a hoax I'd like to know how this was accomplished... it doesn't seem likely that this could be done so flawlessly.

I'm open to an explanation... if there is one other than this being a fake.

[Yanarchist]

I think it's not done yet BUT can BE... in the near futur we'll have programs that need simply ''tought banks'' matching the possibilities of the program. exemple: it asks you to thing about a piano, records the brain wave and thats it. It has to be perform for every instruments, and individual notes, then individual users)

Then we'll be able to compose, live from our thoughts...Can't wait to live this!

[kaigani]

I've updated the description, because I too am now convinced that this is a hoax. A fairly elaborate one though.

[metabog]

@kaigani I'm not sure If it's really a hoax. If this is really Eduardo Miranda's project, then it is a legitimate project and you can find a number of research papers on it. I know a bit about it since I applied for a PhD in this department, and have been reading various publications they've put out. He's not literally playing note with his brain, but he's driving a generative algorithm, like guypie explained below.

[YetiJoe]

its fake.. sorry to destroy your illusions, but this is not possible, yet

the conditions would be that thinking of certain tune would generate a speciific neuronal impulse in the brain which and then the elektrodes would have to be able to identify them.. nooooooot

[WozulPonz]

@YetiJoe

No, not thinking about the note/tune, but thinking about the linear spatial location of the piano key that maps to that note. That problem is a much easier one.

In fact, given the level of brain-computer interfacing technology, basic pianos (12-20 keys or so) can easily be simulated. All you need to do is train the s/w for only 3 types of brain signals ... moving left, moving right and pressing a key.

[Arteanor]

@YetiJoe "its fake.. sorry to destroy your illusions, but this is not possible, yet"

seems to me someone is missing out on their Emotiv Epoch headset....

the tech has been out since you made that comment 9 months ago

[foeaxe]

@Arteanor Sorry dude.. Its just not possible. The Emotiv headset has nowhere near these capabilities yet :(... trust me.. i have one :P

[corycountree]

A monkey works a robot arm like its own while the woman in the wheel chair works a virtual cursor on a virtual keyboard. This piano playing beats the pinball stuff and puts us up with the monkey. Are these Hands of felt motion purified of body?

[zlwilly]

Yea, I call BS.

[scorpionsoulja]

nice playing piano LOL

[raco3140]

FAKEEEE. i' m working with bci, you can control only one or two kind of output.

so maybe you can play the ring of the bell... very slowly too!

[ostrorawr]

It's not necessarily fake, but I'm also a bit skeptical. The only way they could have something like this is by having built in loads of intelligence into the interface and having higher level control than at the notes level ("minor/major scale", "ascending or descending", etc.)

[raco3140]

i m working in the institute of medical psychology of Tuebingen. is one of the most important BCI center in Europe, or the most important. and the maximum speed of communication is 10/15 bit for minute.

the only thing that the subject is doing is producing mu rythm imaging movement. and the bci do everything. of course, maybe he is imaging to do the movement necessary for playing this music, but doesn't matter. he could imaging to move his finger up and down, and it would works.

[Skmecs]

Santa have one of these to.

[schlemmsy]

Surely if you had the money to fund a 'play the piano with your brain' machine then you would be able to register your video compression software?

[milolouis]

i dotn beleive that the headset is directly controlling the piano as the interface technology is nowhere near this advanced

[Vortex727]

O_O

that is just Cool. :D

If i had that system. :D id easily be able to write my own songs.. cause i can imagine it.. i just don't have the coordination. sadly