More about brain-activity sonification, this time based on MRIs instead of EEGs. I think it’s interesting how the sound of this project is much more compelling than the last one; I wonder how much of this is due to the choice of slow attack/decay synth sounds over a MIDI piano, and how much is due to the type of data they receive.

At least in the first example in the video, the data is quite digital: on and off for various areas of the brain, depending on whether their activity passes a certain threshold. EEG data, being more of a continuous line, you might expect to have a less discrete sound. Just sending MIDI data to a new synth can change a lot!

(via SynthGear)