Thought controlled orchestra makes its debut in Prague
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 6th 2009 1:17PM
posted May 6th 2009 1:17PM
The Multimodal Brain Orchestra had its world premiere last week in Prague, a city known for its big thinkers (and its Velvet Revolution). As a guy in black tie-and-tails led the traditional players through their arpeggios and glissandos, an "emotional conductor" led four performers fitted with G-Tec caps as they controlled both visuals and the sounds, frequencies, and volumes of various instruments. The controls were based on two of the effects that EEGs measure, SSVEP (or steady-state evoked potential) and the P300 signal. While we're not sure if this will ever take off in the classical world, we do think that there are quite a few turntablists who could do some wild things with a thought controlled Kaoss Pad. Are you listening, Korg? Video after the break.
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Sounds beautiful
"Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."
Many BBC videos still have problems working outside of the Ivory Isles.
What a mess!
the even look like zombies... 0_0 run!!!
;) sounded cool though :D
grr... *they
SO they control the images on the screen with their minds too? Anyone else thinking holophoner from Futurama?
Wow...that's kinda creepy. I couldn't help thinking of them just "being used" like those hybrids in BSG, but I'm sure that's not the case...yet anyway. So when do the new Intel Brain 2 Duo Extreme processors come out?
That's pretty cool actually.
wow, that live concert must be riveting
For all the trouble they're going through, what a lame aural experience...
I would like to hear what it sounds like when they aren't warming up. That was the warm up right?
Fu*k! If I knew I'd go see it live, this is great!
I'd be Much more impressed if i heard something that wasn't so abstract. For all I know, 90% of the "notes" they were hitting was accidental. I'm not impressed at all. It sounded like mostly mistakes. I'm find with abstract music, but it needs to sound like there was some intention to the music. Ick!
Man, who knew that people could suck so hard playing an instrument with your just your brain.
(I'm sorry, but all these people commenting at how "lame" the performance is are really irritating. They're using their freakin' minds!)