Re: [microsound] beaming sound directly into your brain

[Jason Thomas <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is definitely intriguing.  I'd heard that someone
(Microsoft?) had been working on a mouse that could be
operated exclusively via brainwaves. I recently gave a
conference presentation about physical objects
involved in musical experiences and how they effect
our perception of a given work.  There's a great
interview with Mort Subotnick on the American
Mavericks website in streaming audio in which he says
something about a childhood drawing I'll briefly
paraphrase:

Performers on stage, reading from a score, seated in
front of audience members in a concert hall. 
(Tradional physical presentation environment so far.)
Each performer and audience member affixed with
helmets. Wires connecting the helmets on the
performers to those of the audience members, allowing
them to percieve the sounds as imagined by the
performer.

We can also see a desire to get away from the physical
as a final realization of a work in the concept works
of Paik, for example, or composer Amnon Wolmans's text
pieces which describe sounds to be imagined.   I have
text pieces similar to those of previously mentioned
that also try to avoid reference to real world
sounds/objects in addition to eliminating their
necessity as a means of final realization.  I find
Beethoven's quote "Do you think when the spirit comes
to me that I think of your lousy fiddles?"
interesting.  In general, I prefer works that start
with a premise and then utilize whatever means
necessary for completion rather than approaching
whatever technology employed as a point of departure. 

If such a technology were employed not only to receive
information, but transmit it as well, this would in
many ways prove an ideal situation.  (Even more
liberating in a way than the tape medium.) 

Partch must be rolling over!

Jason



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