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Five For Friday – 6th October 2023

Concrete Green – ‘One Last Try’ After the rousing response to his brilliant debut single ‘Lazy Lou’ in recent months, London’s Concrete Green is back once again to deliver the powerful new effort ‘One Last Try’. With its broad and emotive atmosphere perfectly elevating his wondrous vocals throughout, he is certainly looking to turn some …

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Pink Floyd music in neuroscience study on how the brain works

Just published is a research article, on the use of Pink Floyd’s music to analyse the brain (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002176). As a result of the analysis, AI was able to reconstruct part of Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1, from brain waves alone. Whilst in itself, you might wonder what the point of that is. There is a hope that eventually, technology will exist that can use AI to determine what someone who is non-verbal is wanting to say. This would have huge implications for assisting such people, which is why the breakthrough is seen as so significant. The audio that was created is very muddy sounding and hard to make out, but there are clear parts that (knowing the song) you can recognise such as the “All in all…” lyrics. Whilst there has already been work on translating brain activity into words, the ability for AI to recognise musical elements could result in much more accurate “translation” within brain–computer interface (BCI) applications, conveying emotion behind words and phrases – key to proper comprehension of people’s thoughts and feelings. The analysis used 29 volunteers, who each had epilepsy and during a procedure (iEEG) had 2668 electrodes put onto the brain’s surface. Some 347 of these were on the part of the brain used for music processing. The team behind the work were Pink Floyd fans, so used their music for the research. A huge amount of detail on the work can be found here (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002176) for those interested in much more detail.

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Five For Friday – 14th April 2023

Infinite Eights – ‘Melody’ With their breakthrough single ‘Insecure’ cementing them as one of the more exciting names on the rise right now, emerging outfit Infinite Eights continue their ascent with the dreamy new effort ‘Melody’. With its warm and vibrant aesthetic measured against some glittering vocals throughout, they are certainly looking to turn some …

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Five For Friday – 10th February 2023

DinoVert – ‘See Right Through’ After an exciting run of form over the last few months, fast-rising Houston-based artist DinoVert returns to the fold once again on his vibrant new offering ‘See Right Through’. Capturing more of that warm and textured alt-pop direction he is known for, he is looking to sweep us off our …

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