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http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=806
"I give you the Emotiv Epoch. This headset with 14 sensors of pure awesomeness detects player thoughts, feelings, and expressions. In the Control Panel there is a tool call Cognitiv Suite. This is that part of the application I use to control Ableton Live. In Cognitiv Suite you move a floating box around on the screen using thought. You can then can assign these different “thought actions” to keyboard commands. Next I assigned these commands to start and stop an audio clip in Ableton Live."

This is interesting. It looks like you are using a PC, but I can't tell for sure. If so, what is the device recognized as when you first install it?

check this out

http://www.grapevine.is/PrintVersion/

download the 10.17.7 2009 issue - the one with the colourful sign posts on the cover - interview with björk about an instrument called reactable - which allows you to create music using the right hemi sphere of the brain - she used the world's first working model on tour

buzby wrote:check this out

http://www.grapevine.is/PrintVersion/

download the 10.17.7 2009 issue - the one with the colourful sign posts on the cover - interview with björk about an instrument called reactable - which allows you to create music using the right hemi sphere of the brain - she used the world's first working model on tour

you realize that's sort of an overstatement of the reactable... have you ever seen the video demos? it's essentially a multitouch interface, with symbol recognition with their orientation used to control parameters with other signal modifiers in the mix (oscillator pitch, LFO and such)... it's right hemisphere because its all visual and tactile (artistic, if you will)... things your right brain process

tromo wrote:you realize that's sort of an overstatement of the reactable... have you ever seen the video demos? it's essentially a multitouch interface, with symbol recognition with their orientation used to control parameters with other signal modifiers in the mix (oscillator pitch, LFO and such)... it's right hemisphere because its all visual and tactile (artistic, if you will)... things your right brain process

ahhh - ok - i only read the interview and it kinda gives the impression that you actually use your right brain to control what you compose

well - that's how i interpreted it

cheers

delicioso wrote:http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=806
"I give you the Emotiv Epoch. This headset with 14 sensors of pure awesomeness detects player thoughts, feelings, and expressions. In the Control Panel there is a tool call Cognitiv Suite. This is that part of the application I use to control Ableton Live. In Cognitiv Suite you move a floating box around on the screen using thought. You can then can assign these different “thought actions” to keyboard commands. Next I assigned these commands to start and stop an audio clip in Ableton Live."

how much did that thing cost and how responsive is it?

I built this thing:

http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/

And got some (arguably good) results with it... only three electrodes though. I'm working with a neuroscientist now using data from a 128 electrode monster along with fMRI data... fun times.

I used this software with the open eeg project to control Live, it outputs MIDI based on incoming eeg signals. There's a free trial version which is all I needed:

http://www.cyberevolution.com/

q.musgrove wrote:how much did that thing cost and how responsive is it?

can you imagine the sort of music you d make on mushrooms ?

If you see a hot chick in the audience and you get a sweaty boner can you have that mapped to pitch bend?

djsynchro wrote:If you see a hot chick in the audience and you get a sweaty boner can you have that mapped to pitch bend?

would nt it be embarrassing if your audio transposed down !!

i think this thread is about to get silly

djsynchro wrote:If you see a hot chick in the audience and you get a sweaty boner can you have that mapped to pitch bend?

I'd have it mapped to a sample of:

"schwing!"


and maybe matched up with a video clip with some m4L jitter action.

djsynchro wrote:If you see a hot chick in the audience and you get a sweaty boner can you have that mapped to pitch bend?

There's a dedicated sensor for that, believe it or not...

control Live with my mind? Snowcrash.

just think, in 50 years, there will be no midi hardware, just your brain. crazy shit.

cacti wrote:just think, in 50 years, there will be no midi hardware, just your brain. crazy shit.

and everyone is going to be a fat turd.