Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Heady Music


Science Daily reports on custom music made from your brainwaves, a project sponsored by Dept of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate to help emergency response workers achieve "relaxed" states and "alert" states by listening to music composed by algorithmically processing their brain states.

To put it simply:
Your brain makes noise. The project then translates that noise into what we call "music." The researchers are betting that by feeding that music back to you, it will reenact the mental state your brain was in when it first made the noise.

You can listen to a clip of the "Alert" music here.

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