Epileptic Symphonies: Turning seizures into music

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Brant Guichard has heard "The Music" for as long as he can remember. Brant has a particular type of epilepsy where he hears what are called "musical auras" whenever he has a seizure. Brian Foo, aka the Data Driven DJ, introduces a different musical element to Brant's experience of seizure. 20K is made out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/seizuresonification Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz,
0:36.6	the stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
0:40.3	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:42.3	What you're hearing right now are brain waves, sort of.
0:48.3	This is from an EEG machine.
0:50.3	An EEG machine is used to record the electrical activity of the brain, plug that data into
0:55.7	a synthesizer, and you get something like what you're hearing. It's not exactly pretty. Actually,
1:01.7	it's kind of spooky, but what did you expect to hear inside someone's head? Well, if the head
1:07.6	we're talking about is Brant Guishard's, the answer would be music.
1:12.6	Recently, Joel Werner, the host of the podcast, Some of All Parts, talked to Brant to find out exactly what's going on inside his head.
1:19.8	I'll let Joel explain.
1:21.6	Brant Gwishard has heard the music for as long as he can remember.
1:25.9	The earliest memory I have was sitting on a bed in my room
1:33.3	and enjoying a run of music as it went by me,
1:41.3	waving my hands as it just run through and I didn't recognise it for what
1:50.0	it was at the time. I listened to it, it finished and I asked my friend who was
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