We’ve seen DJ interface innovations rapidly morphing into radical new forms. Now French company Musinaut ups the ante into the stratosphere, with a music playback system that’s controlled by your mind. The player reads and interprets your brainwaves and mixes the music to match your mood. The system uses the new MXP4 format, which has different mixes of the same song built into the file. Though, as Gizmodo pointed out, this technology would probably be better off using existing players and file formats rather than starting over with the MXP4.
[via Gizmodo]
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Hi TronMe is already doing this based on your movements infornt of your webcam, you dance
October 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am
Hi TronMe is already doing this based on your movements infornt of your webcam, you dance and the player remixes
http://ww.tronme.com
October 1st, 2008 at 11:55 am
Alison, TronMe is (obviously) doing something different and less impressive, but it was still a nice plug for your product.
When I was a young buck reading up on Aphex Twin, he would always rhapsodize about wanting 3-dimensional wireless interfaces, and especially some sort of EEG/EKG interface so that he could get music “out of his head” in the most literal possible sense. It’s wild to see this now. I have a buddy in Austin, TX who is doing similar work which he’ll present at Esozone this year — it’s a custom-built EEG interface that he’s using to modify a hardware synth.
At present it takes him awhile to achieve any kind of stability/clarity because he’s gotta tune the feedback very carefully…which is a hilarious cascading problem when you’re thinking about feedback as you adjust the feedback from what you’re thinking.
Really digging the music-centric posts recently.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
While the user can compile MXP4 playlists based on mood, MXP4 alone does not interpret the listener’s mood. The MXP4 concept is actually quite cool without the headgear. One digital MXP4 file contains multiple versions/mixes of a song so that listeners can listen to a song in different ways to fit their mood. The file also includes accompanying graphics and text written by the musician to communicate directly to the music fan.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I just think it would be a lot cooler if it was actually making the music you were thinking about, instead of just playing a different version of the same song based on mood. Baby steps, I guess.
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm