...Brain Music...

While everyone was posting their summer playlists and trying to hold onto the past, I decided to look into the future, to find something new, to find something to look forward to. Glancing into the New York Times' Arts section yesterday, I found exactly who I was looking for: Alex Chechile and his digital electroencephalograph. In simple terms, an electroencephalograph, or EEG, measures the waves produced by the brain and transcribes them down onto, in his case, a computer. What makes Chechile so special is how he takes something so far from music and creates noises a common instrument is unable to create. By connecting his head to the EEG, then the EEG to his computer, he is able to record the waves of his firing neurons, convert them into sound and edit the noises he, in a way, "imagines" by using software on his computer and better yet, is able to do all of this live without delay. His sound is very comprable to the supposed "drugs" from the Japanese scientists of i-Doser. Brooklyn's Chechile is now teaming up with Mercury Rev, a psychedelic rock band reminiscent of the Flaming Lips, to produce a live sound never seen before. Their first show ever together was last night at a small club in East Village and while Mercury Rev's seventh studio album, Snowflake Midnight, is planned to be released the 29th of September, Chechile came on board after they recorded it. Below is some of Chechile's Brain Music and Mercury Rev's track entitled "Goddess on a Hiway".
Future: 1, Past: 0.