Brain Computer Interface - Playing the piano

Amazing demonstration of someone playing the piano using headgear that reads brain waves.

See http://www.gtec.at/products/g.BCIsys/bci.htm for more info

Research from
Music generation by brain waves (MPG, 7 MB). Project of University of Plymouth (Eduardo Miranda)

**UPDATE** upon further review, and as pointed out in many of the comments -- this seems to be a hoax. I was surprised by the extent to which they covered it with a mock website though.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• brain
• computer
• interface
• music
• people
• interaction
• future

[kaigani]

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

[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?

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[foeaxe]

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

[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