Music Curation Based on Brainwaves?

[DrmDoc]

According to this Quartz article:

 

Companies and composers have begun using software to make music customized to your brainwaves. Soon you will be able to plug in your headphones, lean back in your chair, and relax to a playlist so synchronized with your brain’s chemistry that it increases your productivity, sleep quality, and even fights anxiety.

 

 

Although I don't think it possible to synchronize music to brain "chemistry", music can affect our mood and mood is merely an expression of brain function. Essentially, what this article discusses isn't much of a revelation. We've known since Stone Age humanity's first drumbeat that music can elicit certain behavioral responses. Therefore, it isn't a stretch of credulity or ground breaking discovery that music can alter the brainwave frequencies underpinning our moods and behaviors. The article attempts to make a distinction between synchronizing music to brainwave frequencies as opposed to taste--which was a distinction lost on me because brainwaves also underpin our tastes.

Edited April 15, 2017 by DrmDoc

[quickquestion]

According to this Quartz article:

 

 

Although I don't think it possible to synchronize music to brain "chemistry", music can affect our mood and mood is merely an expression of brain function. Essentially, what this article discusses isn't much of a revelation. We've known since Stone Age humanity's first drumbeat that music can elicit certain behavioral responses. Therefore, it isn't a stretch of credulity or ground breaking discovery that music can alter the brainwave frequencies underpinning our moods and behaviors. The article attempts to make a distinction between synchronizing music to brainwave frequencies as opposed to taste--which was a distinction lost on me because brainwaves also underpin our tastes.

I have not much faith in this, but I am very open minded so I would like to try and to beta test this technology.

 

Also, I would like to mention Stephen Wolfram's excellent math expertise, but his automatic music generation program did not make very interesting music.