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built within our d.n.a. within our genes. our society becomes faster and faster and faster they have to get information out of the environment they are equipped the auditory channel is quicker and the visual channel. this big developments happening in technology at the moment and a lot of people sue not all about the visual but if you don't get the sound right then your sensor motion completely disappears.
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so i walked to the right by going to how people react every day sounds so i go on about the normal day icon of this lots of sounds i'm not really paying attention to and i will be taking my is my brain will be taking unconsciously but my conscious brain isn't aware of it. some aspects of auditory channel aster than other senses and that's because we might think of his as being something to do speaking like i am now in communication but actually it's an early warning system and that's what its 1st evolutionary purpose. oh yeah good to see you're welcome to the sound walk of me so we know. the places
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point see we hear. you as a slut back of the sofa for use on the 1950 s. rock n roll and musician here. he is going to great sound effect but he just calls by the you know the brick is just peeping the sound here that your son is probably skipping around in song of this. coming back and it's also going along the top of the water and coming back again to get his amazing amazing contributions by signs the mystery is how is the sound getting across it's give me around the top of the great was it just going straight in bouncing off the wall and coming straight to you. could even be both helps. i think sound can be both about listening and about vibration. and so from
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a purely so physical point if you can think of acoustic ways which are vibrations that don't need someone to listen to to actually exist but actually to be of interest really you could have some observed the animal whether it's a human or a bird whatever listening to that sound. think the rounds early ninety's moved from a music listener to. explore experimenting
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working on this topic you realized it was not really 100 percent but the feeling of his reality existing outside of us. our brain it's only delivering information to be needed in order to survive but you can very much money believe your brain by giving it attention to a constant listening to the soundtrack. it's up to you how much of that style for them to. sound itself can. physically. change our behavior in a radical way it can create moods that creates a physical reaction in the body this. noise. just this is just already a language but it can communicate so much. we never speech of actually hearing
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those every feet was moving everything but this living has a frequency that's a risk even if deep before we are born we have to experience of self. one of the interesting things that i picked up on was how different the arches were i mean between them all because they all seem very similar in makeup and shape and size it depends what i'm focusing point is compared to the ground is above the ground and it's not really a cliff if you had you don't hit face right on the ground you get this reinforcement sign goes down an up and down and up and there's all kind of weird
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accused effects which you know we've all been listening to for millennia i mean this is this coast theories the. call is placed in places where the echoes are particularly interesting so you can paint a picture of a figure and he's done but by go in the sun will come off and it will look like the person's to a sound of a person's. it's rather strange as an archeologist to have an interest in music because the past is of course totally sonnet to us. we know that some of the most elaborate painting panels in the caves also in the case where he got the most dramatic acoustics. so he spent those paintings was soon seated with singing dancing musicality.
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this is a typical train or tram noise and i wonder what your sponsors to this. i won't be long enough i think i'm so yeah it's really been pleasant on the ear how how calm and the theory has it is that there scraping sounds on pleasant because they sound a bit like a scream and in our brains with a very short response mechanism to deal with danger that's what hearing was 1st of evolution was an early warning system so you find a lot of cities doing things like bringing fountains into squares because it gives you the sound of nature and you can do things that high traffic noise with it and of course we like the sound of nature is good for us you know in evolution returns we're used to living not in a city but out in the countryside and when there's water there's there's going to be food that's going to be water for us to drink so we naturally find a pleasant sound. and was quite curious about sound is actually sound waves
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musica nothing was being used for making music rather than making conversation is limited. humans are social creatures it was our hearing that enabled us to build communities and to secure the survival of our species through evolution. the importance of our audio functions can be discerned from the moment we are born. babies are like superman when babies are born they are musical so they can discriminate between the rhythm of their native language and rhythms of other languages but more interestingly and at age of 4 days after birth babies are already crying
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i started playing piano when i was 3 i would just and the only sound that i would hear in the room. and just learning by ear. overgrown apocalyptic house. to. children are perfect musicians and where they have to superior appearing and superior pitch and then somewhere along the way if those skills are perfected if they're not worked on then you lose it but and it's infancy i feel like we're designed to be these perfectly pitched musical instrument. and there's
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a huge space for innovation within the integration of music and technology that is going to come entirely from the younger generations. i'm really interested in helping young girls young women get into. he said in the technological aspects of music making. computers is actually de monetizing the music industry you could actually create an
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entirely new form of music and your own are a way of listening and writing music and the traditional approach to learning music is not necessary for that process and i'm excited to see where it's going to go because it's limitless. we're using different methods to see where and when the brain processes music so that those methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging where we put people into the scanner and see which brain areas consume more oxygen means they are active during listening to music playing music also we use methods like trance of philosophy where we have little sensors electrodes on the scalp to record the brain
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potentials with a millisecond resolution to really tell when things are happening and we have methods where we stimulate the brain to make one brain area more or less efficient to see which effects this has on music perception and projection. i started to play the piano i be a ship me and my family couldn't imagine that i could be a professional in pianists a professional musician. nobody of my family are musician i realize that the music of this great means for me is to have a conversation with a people and to get into the social i will shout it to things in the wall with
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musicians who use both hands while playing this is done by the 2 hemispheres that need to communicate more strongly than in an old musician the auditory areas are refined musicians are better able to discriminate between 2 pitches. we are fascinated by how musicians perform on stage with great speed and accuracy and how they are doing this. pianist when planning piano movements is always like 5 or 6 tones ahead in his or her mind. we were interested in whether we can influence this planning process maybe boost this planning process by brain stimulation.
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but nothing for myself to hear. the 2nd seat so today will do an experiment on music production. and why they are doing this week i asked him of the 81 area in your brain asked located about here and to find this area i'll do some neuro navigation with you. what will happen us there so you are see hands of a pianist on the screen playing the piano playing what sequences and your task will be to do exactly the same on the piano on your own piano just be me taking as you see on the screen all right ringback.
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very close with this whole reverse engineering brain research and if you can create this blueprint of all the neural connections in your brain and build a supercomputer that would map all of these functions out you can sound very noninvasive a lot. circle stimulus to your brain and be able to manipulate the emotional state the mental state so essentially that's going to change the way that we listen to music because we won't necessarily need speakers to you hear and experience music. one of the power of music for example is that it can have an influence on you and you don't know why. but the history of music has not only f.p.s. or. have
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green wall songs to manipulate and music has been used for torture and that's a terrible history. in england it's been an interesting development marks and spencers a big public stories decided to turn off music entirely and that's the soylent switch is an interesting choice because most shops are using music to manipulate behavior and saw this will surely home that it was how is it that some external combination of musical sounds has like an emotional impact on human beings perhaps there are certain frequencies that are more harmonious with the way that our physical chemistry is taking my music and switching it from 440 hertz to 432 and like listening to the differences so on my record i definitely did that to certain tracks and some of the sounded and it just felt more warm and like more or more bracelet.
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2 experienced with the mafia a group of people who had never before listened to western type of music they hear musical piece and the me usually realize this is sad something that seems to be partly universal in this rituals experience a grade of musical euphoria so we came up with this technology where we create the music in a way that is physically very challenging. fitness. i mean you already have a number off effects just passively just to music but when you actively do it.
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i think effects are approximately. double the strong. in decreased their enzyme. which in chronic pain is huge furthermore we found some you know logical effects where we find that the moral side of the concentration sort of 1st barrier against infections and is increased off to the gym. we are basically rediscovering all these effects and of probably played a huge role in the development of human civilization. when we make music together we are truly in harmony. each player becomes part of a bigger whole. we feel good when we enjoy music and whether it's being played by
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an orchestra a rock band a samba class an ancient ritual or even a fitness machine the music we make also leads us back to ourselves to our bodies. studies indicate we have a sense of music even before we begin to use words. one could almost say the human brain is wired for music. music was a 1st cause or language probably but also in our development since we 1st are sensitive to music and are 1st that doing music our musical sounds before understanding or is speaking like morse took to the thames.
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so briefly for me is a project in which we are insulating by. electrical activity in the brain into sounds we create music through emotions so the emotions of the brain are translated into a musical language part of this project is to provide people with different disabilities like cerebral palsy the opportunity to create music through the activity of the.
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