This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
News "My brain wave machine"
Posted by Andrew R Tonry on Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:10 PM
From the What The Fuck Desk:
The Mercury Rev is collaborating with a guy who makes music from brain waves. That's right, Brain Waves. Maybe not so much music, but effects. Basically the machine, called an electroencephalograph, can detect your neurons firing and uses the pulses to alter and effect other sound sources--kind of like a guitar effects pedal.
I wonder how random the electroencephalograph is. Can you control it to some degree, like telling your brain to light up or slow down? Does it go crazy when you think about sex and mellow out when you're board? Does Einstein make it sizzle while Homer Simpson flat-lines?
The tool, designed by Brooklyn artist Alex Chechile, is cobbled together. My favorite bit from the NY Times piece:
...Mr. Chechile and his device, part of which is in a Tupperware box ('Some people might keep their spaghetti in that,' he said; 'I keep my brain wave machine in it')
All Tomorrow's Parties, which is approaching (Sept. 21), is also mentioned and I couldn't help but note the bands mentioned--Dinosaur Jr., Yo La Tengo, Mogwai and Bob Mould; the first two days feature Thurston Moore, Tortoise, Built to Spill and a couple of dozen others--are all fucking old.
Fuck the 90's nostalgia trip already, eh? We're not dead yet. New artists are doing interesting things as well.
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