Brad Ideas - music - Comments

"mind reading"

brad — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:24:12 -0700

These techniques are extremely primitive and there are already much superior ways to get information out of the brain. Skilled musicians aren't really that aware of how their fingers or vocal chords etc. are making the notes, they just think the notes and out they come, more like walking and typing. (When you type a letter, do you think about how to move your finger to hit the T key or do you just think "t" and it happens.)

So we already have the ability to just think the music and have a computer read it.

allowing everyone to compose music

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:11:29 -0700

Aren't we soon suppose to have ways for a computer to read our minds. There's been studies with monkeys that show monkeys moving a cursor to click on signs, simply by a computer that reads his brain signals. Also, I think NASA researchers developed a very simple way for a computer to read brain signals that apparently travel to our tongue. So here in a different way, the computer reads our mind.

Now imagine the above methods being used to compose music. We don't have to know how to play any instrument, but simply imagine the tone and rhythm, and the computer translates it into midi signals. Isn't it the way everyone will start creating their own music pieces?

It can be done. What the heck will be the long term result of it?

Must be Gremlins

Tom Duff — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:03:07 -0700

Yeah. It works OK for me now. I looked at it carefully when I did it, but maybe I missed something.

Thanks

brad — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:52:36 -0700

Looks to be mostly in europe. Surprisingly the wikipedia article does not have links to samples of the results.
As for the comment question, it always works caseless in my tests, are you sure you did not have another typo perhaps?

Spectralism

Tom Duff — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:11:32 -0700

Contemporary composers have been doing basically this for about 30 years. There's a style of composition called "Spectralism", practiced mostly in France. The big name is Tristan Murail. Wikipedia's discussion is pretty good. (BTW, the comment-validating question flunked me when I used a capital T.)