Comment on Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves

BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• deranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did you listen to the clip? It’s barely recognizable as any song.

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  • BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • pjhenry1216@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • deranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m listening to the clip at the top of the article and it’s barely even musical. It’s a sound.

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Make sure you’re listening to the clip towards the middle of the article. The one from the top is unrecognizable to me.

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    • deranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 was music.

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      • pjhenry1216@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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