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Neuron Noise
Posted March 18, 2013
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Yesterday I visited the Barbican for their Brain Waves Weekender, a range of exhibitions fusing art with neuroscience. Along with a kid-friendly dissection of a jelly brain and an invitation to knit a neuron, the event featured two sound-related demonstrations.
The first was Music of the Mind – a performance by Finn Peters, Prof Mark d’Inverno, Dr Mick Grierson and Dr Matthew Yee-King of Goldsmiths University, made using ‘brain computer interfaces’ translated into sound via headsets usually used for gaming, coupled with custom software. Interesting idea, though the music itself was a little too avant garde for my taste. You can see an example of the project here.
The second was a Sonic Tour of the Brain by Guerilla Science, a playlist of about twenty minutes exploring the different sounds relating to the structure and functions of the brain. Two tracks featured the actual sounds of the…
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