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12.9 Questions

1. How would you de ne the emerging field of Music Neurotechnology?

2. What do you understand by the hypothesis?

3. Explain the metaphor that Symphony of Minds Listening is intended to express
artistically.
4. What is the point of composing each movement of the symphony based on the
fMRI scan of a different person?
5. Explain what ICA is and its role in the project presented in this chapter.
6. What are the approaches to using computer-generated materials in musical
composition discussed in this chapter? Discuss the differences between them,
and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
7. Can you envisage an approach to use computers in music beyond the ones
discussed in this chapter?
8. What is the rational for dividing Beethoven

' mind as music '

' is piece into 13 sections before

processing it with MusEng?
9. Why does MusEng apply transformations to the music?
10. Create a new kind of transformation for MusEng and explain it in detail.

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