Are you one of those starry-eyed music fans who wishes they were in a band yet sadly does not posses a creative musical bone or vocal tone? Well don’t worry, you can now use your brainwaves as an instrument to create music, well, almost.
We aren’t kidding, courtesy of an unbelievable invention entitled the “Experience Helmet” created by artist Aiste Noreikaite, one can quite literally create sonics out of their brains when wearing the special headgear, as The Creators Project (via Factmag) point out.
Without getting crazy technical, the Experience Helmet utilises electroencephalography (EEG , the recording of electrical activity along the scalp) by transforming the helmet wearer’s neural processes into actual sound, as Noreikaite eloquently explains, the sound you hear is an “audible reflection of one’s personal experience of the present moment.” In basic terms, the sound you hear is your brainwaves.
Speaking of the creation of the helmet Noreikaite tells, “users hear the sound that is being generated by his brainwaves. The brainwaves recognise themselves in that sound and react to it very positively, then this is looped back to them via sound again and again.”
Noreikaite’s inspiration for the mind-blowing helmet was said to be born form Buddhist meditation practices and a desire to enhance her own self-awareness. Apparently sounds become a lot higher when users have a clear state of mind, perhaps creating more ambient tunes, and when one focuses on something in particular the sounds become faster and more rhythmic, maybe the beginnings of a noise-punk track?
Noreikaite’s crazy inventions will not stop at turning the mind into sound, the artist’s next project is to translate human emotion into sound – here we were thinking that was a simple cuss word or crying.
