Specialising and Exhibiting

Week4–Expanded Studio Practice for Twenty-First Century Sound Artists

 l feel very proud of me for using an analog synth design to explore the scope and considerations when building idiosyncratic, novel, and new sound affordances. I found the moving patterns in predate were very cute and active.

I am also feeling very struggling at the moment! I saw a YouTube tutorial on brainwave-powered wavetable in Ableton Live and I just wanted to get my head around it. But when I bought the hardware device which was the muse head pan, it just did not work. I guessed it was the issue of there being some problems in the MAX program, because it seemed the connection of the oscillator and midi generator was very messy and weak.

I really desired to make it work, in terms of building up the relationship between EEG and random sound as one of my interactive sound installations. As I talked about this idea with Milo before, I would like the audience to listen to their heartbeats when their brainwaves were being detected. I am also questioning myself on “Could I make the sound sounds different if I move my head around? ” The purple Muse port was working and it was only reading the messages from the App from the phone ( middle man ) which the muse head pan was streaming out from. But the green one just did not show off. It was working for only a second.

I was thinking of using MaxMsp to build up a new midi generator then I could make my project using Ableton live which would be cooler in generating sounds.

I was also thinking of building up an electronic stethoscope then I could physically relate them together.

The muse head pan only focuses on these 5 waves: Various regions of the brain do not emit the same brain wave frequency simultaneously. An EEG signal between electrodes placed on the scalp consists of many waves with different characteristics. The large amount of data received from even one single EEG recording makes interpretation difficult. Brain wave patterns are unique for every individual.