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Creative Music Neurotechnology
with Symphony of Minds Listening
Eduardo Reck Miranda, Dan Lloyd, Zoran Josipovic
and Duncan Williams
Abstract
A better understanding of the musical brain combined with technical advances in
biomedical engineering and music technology is pivotal for the development of
increasingly more sophisticated brain
computer music interfacing (BCMI)
systems. BCMI research has been very much motivated by its potential bene
-
ts
to the health andmedical sectors, as well as to the entertainment industry. However,
we advocate that the potential impact on musical creativity of better scienti
c
understanding of the brain, and the development of increasingly sophisticated
technology to scan its activity, should not be ignored. In this chapter, we introduce
an unprecedented new approach to musical composition, which combines brain
imaging technology, musical arti
cial intelligence and neurophilosophy. We
discuss
Symphony of Minds Listening
, an experimental composition for orchestra
in three movements, based on the fMRI scans taken from three different people,
while they listened to the second movement of Beethoven
'
s
Seventh Symphony
.
