Navigating Music, Brain and The Edge of Chaos

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Data and Questions

The goals of this project include

1. Evaluate and purchase a wearable EEG
2. Set up the instrumentation for data capture
3. Set up the experimentation/data-capture plan
4. Recruit Subjects
5. Perform Data Capture
6. Analyze Results
7. Propose pathways to take this to the market by embedding it as an app

Possible method References:

1. Hacking Your Brain Waves: Wearable Meditation Headsets: http://www.diygenius.com/hacking-your-brain-waves/
2. Measure your brainwaves and modify your mind: http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/06/muse-eeg-mood/
3. This wearable device reads your brain waves. Is there a market for it?: http://fortune.com/2014/02/10/this-wearable-device-reads-your-brain-waves-is-there-a-market-for-it/
4. Your-brain-is-on-the-brink-of-chaos: http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/your-brain-is-on-the-brink-of-chaos
5. Two Decades of Search for Chaos in Brain: http://www.um.sav.sk/en/images/stories/dep03/doc/krakmeas09.pdf
6. How You Are Who You Are--in Chaos Theory:https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/is-your-brain-culture/201008/how-you-are-who-you-are-in-chaos-theory
7. Diana Dabby Links: https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/06/15/what-little-chaos-does-for-music/QLkNTkPIgmec20Db39oHbN/story.html
8. Diana Dabby Links: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/1998/dabby-0318
9. Liz Bradley/Diana Dabby Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4vK1iGOCg&feature=youtu.be
10. Music and the Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJl6Pys880
11. Why Music Moves Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Pn9KRVCi4
12. Measuring musical expressivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtSCVqIDl-k
13. The World In Six Songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAl2I30SoTA
14. This-Your-Brain-Music-Obsession: http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Music-Obsession/dp/0452288525
15. World-Six-Songs: http://www.amazon.com/World-Six-Songs-Musical-Created/dp/0452295483
16. Computer Music and the Importance of Fractals, Chaos, and Complexity Theory: http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/repmus/jim96/actes/milicevic.html
17. The_Complexity_of_Songs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs
18. Stefan-Koelsch Papers: http://www.stefan-koelsch.de/papers.html
19. Grammar Based Music Composition: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/L-systemsMusic.pdf

Four principles of bio-musicology, W. Tecumseh Fitch 2015
This paper is a prospectus for biomusical research. Main points:
i) musical is complex (yes!)
ii) questions must be asked from a Tinbergean perspective (i.e. mechanism, ontogeny, phylogeny and function),
iii) comparative between animals (not relevant for us), and
iiii) "ecologically motivated," i.e. not just Western skilled musicians.
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1664/20140091

Neurological implications and neuropsychological considerations on folk music and dance, Sironi V.A., Riva M.A., 2015
Calls for "Interdisciplinary research on these subjects (ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology, clinical neurology and dynamic psychology, neuroradiology and neurophysiology, and socioneurology and neuromusicology)"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25725916