Joel Werner
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1,849 appearances
34 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2011
last heard Nov 2017
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I'm really well.
Thanks.
It's been
so here we go.
The music that you've heard so far in this episode, that music is intrinsically connected to Brandt's epilepsy.
In fact, it is Brandt's epilepsy.
By day, Brian works on data visualization for the museum.
But by night, he's the
and part art form, this is data sonification.
the process of representing
of a Geiger counter, where faster clicks indicate higher radiation levels, this is one of the earliest and most practical examples of data sonification.
Brian's work, on the other hand, is much more
So Brian's take on songwriting is a process called algorithmic composition.
He comes up with a bunch of rules or algorithms that tell the music what to do in response to a change in the data.
And the guiding principle of this approach is something Brian calls uncreative creativity.
And so we gave Brian some of Brant's EEG data, brain recordings of Brant having a seizure, an encounter with the music.
And Brian turned that data
An EEG or an electroencephalogram is a measure of the brain's electrical activity.
It's a really common research technique in neuroscience where it's used to measure anything from a person's sleep behavior to what's going on in their brain during a seizure.
and I was
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