How to make #neuromusic

Posted on 16 January 2019 in Tutorials

The other day I found out that the FENS conference has a call for artists to showcase their neuroscience-related art. While I am not an artist, I thought I could come up with something for the occasion. Inspired by Alain Destexhe and his Spikiss project, I set out to make some electronic music using the neural data I analyze. My idea was to make an audio artistic impression of what it would sound like to be inside the brain of an animal. This was the result (check out the response to a visual stimulus happening at 00:10!):

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import IPython
IPython.display.Audio("images/spikes10trials_short.mp3")
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