Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves
Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves
Breakthrough raises hopes that musicality of natural speech can be restored in patients with disabling neurological conditions
Sound clip is pretty creepy.
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Woah. This is pretty wild. I wonder if they could record the sound of my brain exploding while reading this article 🤯
Did you listen to the clip? It’s barely recognizable as any song.
I did, and it’s absolutely incredible. Keep in mind that the audio was recorded by sticking electrodes on a person’s brain, no speakers or anything. The fact that it is recognizable as music is amazing, but the fact that you can actually hear individual words is totally mind-blowing.
It's recognizable only if you know what it's supposed to be. I don't think anyone could hear that and say "hey, that sounds like Another Brick in the Wall". I feel like the brain fills in what's missing and almost forces it to match the same pattern in our head. So it's definitely cool, but still clearly a science in its early days.
Having not heard the song since I was maybe four, I was annoyed that they gave me the intended lyrics before I played it. I agree that most readers will be primed to hear it correctly despite sounding only new-age trippy on its own.
They didn't give the intended lyrics. They just provided the name of the song I believe. Which happened to also be the lyrics. The second clip is a little more compelling as it includes vocals, so with that, it's definitely interesting.
That’s where I disagree, it’s not recognizable as music - at least not without prior prompting.
Make sure you're listening to the clip towards the middle of the article. The one from the top is unrecognizable to me.
Middle one is slightly better but far from music. It’s not mind blowing to me. If I didn’t have the suggestion I’d not guess this even a song.
I find hard to say that any sound is far from music when music itself has no definition and varies immensely from percussion to electronica to dub to country to opera. There's that guy that plays songs with just whips. Something is music as long as you think it is really.