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runagate · Post by **runagate** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:46 pm

http://www.ibva.com/Step1/Step1.html#midi

IBVA.com wrote:Translate brainwaves to MIDI on Mac or Windows!

With this Expansion Pak you can use your live brain activity to send MIDI messages via your installed MIDI connections! (QuickTime, OMS, soundcard, etc.)

Before you could even purchase MIDI compatible equipment anywhere, the IBVA System was compatible with the original MIDI specification.
Another first from the IBVA!

We also do it best! That's right, we put brainwaves and MIDI together before most people had even heard of it. Many years ago we even prevented a US Patent attempt by a (we'll be nice, no names) company that wanted to stop us from selling brainwave to MIDI equipment.

We alerted the company and the Patent Office to the fact that we were doing public displays of brainwave MIDI control almost a decade before their company had even existed. Their patent never went through and brainwave to MIDI communication is safe and free today. That shows 'em for trying to put the hurt on IBVA!

And of course this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-computer_interface

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:57 pm

No MIDI but I did brain-to-CV in the early 1970s. Popular Electronics or some similar magazine published plans and part lists for a brainwave monitor with alpha-beta-theta filters and all. A little simple integration on the outputs, some level translation stuff, and bingo. Shame my tiny homebrew synth wasn't up to doing anything musically useful with the CVs. :-S But it did work, within the operator's ability to control his or her brainwave activity.

chuck death · Post by **chuck death** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:08 pm

Meffy wrote:Shame my tiny homebrew synth wasn't up to doing anything musically useful with the CVs.

Are you sure it wasn't your tiny homebrew brain that was the limiting factor...

I've always thought it would be interesting to play with this sort of thing. I find it hard to concentrate though and my brain can career off at tangents at any given moment so I'm slightly scared what might happen! I bet runagate would like the results though!

flippya2000 · Post by **flippya2000** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:10 pm

I NEED BRAIN2MIDI!!!!!!!!!!

Jazzyspoon · Post by **Jazzyspoon** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:56 pm

Is this the new piece of hardware you're saving up so diligently for, Runagate?!?

Liquidclear · Post by **Liquidclear** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:10 pm

That thing looks very cool! I couldn't find any price on the site...cant be cheap though.

cyanogen · Post by **cyanogen** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:22 pm

I've been dreaming of something like this for years!

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:23 pm

MIDI is so September 10th. Forget brain-to-MIDI, I need something more like brain-as-DSP-to-satellite-link where any sound I think is instantly created, beamed to a telecom satellite and then back down to every cell phone, digital TV/radio in the world--as well as broadcast in hi-def across teh internets tubes.

Hmm, there's a good sci-fi book in that idea.

Jazzyspoon · Post by **Jazzyspoon** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:26 pm

thank you, Lawnmower Man.

Chuck E. Jesus · Post by **Chuck E. Jesus** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:36 pm

sometimes i think i'm roy orbison...turns out i'm not...

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:43 pm

Chuck E. Jesus wrote:sometimes i think i'm roy orbison...turns out i'm not...

How do you know you are'nt Roy Orbison who thinks he's Chuck E. Jesus almost all the time ?

Chuck E. Jesus · Post by **Chuck E. Jesus** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:49 pm

jupiter8 wrote:
Chuck E. Jesus wrote:sometimes i think i'm roy orbison...turns out i'm not...
How do you know you are'nt Roy Orbison who thinks he's Chuck E. Jesus almost all the time ?

hold on a sec (turns on Autotune)...turns out i am roy orbison...

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:11 pm

Not exactly what you want, but interesting and works on PC via emulation

http://tamw.atari-users.net/brainwav.htm

Tim

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:23 am

NYT on cochlear implants

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article ... -deaf.html

In the popularized story I originally saw about neural as opposed to cochlear implants they showed a jack in the head and interviewed someone about the possibility of the reverse - brain to audio, which is entirely possible but due to reasons that are too longwinded to get into here having to do with the location of "auditory imagination" it'd have to be different neural areas but still it's not so far off. The original story quoted it at 60k $ for the head jack and I personally am gonna start saving up hehe.

Meffy and T-Con, I find boith of those posts informative and fascinating. Thanks

Jazzy, unfortunately, no. That's this thing:

Chuck E. Jesus · Post by **Chuck E. Jesus** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:50 am

when you have the balls to midi deal, perhaps you can play some rock and/or roll...

Brain2Midi and other things runagate thinks about too much