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Twenty Thousand Hertz

Seizure Sonification

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 29 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 the show on Twitter, Facebook, & Reddit. Subscribe to our Youtube channel here. 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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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:08.3

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0:13.2

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0:19.3

a dynamic vocal performance with the cleanest audio.

0:22.9

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0:27.7

It's focusrite.com.

0:31.2

You can also find a link in the show notes.

0:39.0

You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

0:41.3

The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

0:45.3

I'm Dallas Taylor.

0:49.4

What you're hearing right now are brain waves, sort of.

0:53.1

This is from an EEG machine.

0:55.4

An EEG machine is used to record the electrical activity of the brain.

0:59.6

Plug that data into a synthesizer and you get something like what you're hearing.

1:03.9

It's not exactly pretty.

1:05.9

Actually, it's kind of spooky.

1:08.0

But what did you expect to hear inside someone's head?

1:11.2

Well, if the head we're talking about is Brant Gwyshards, the answer would be music.

1:17.3

Recently Joel Werner, the host of the podcast Some of All Parts, talked to Brant to find

1:21.4

out exactly what's going on inside his head.

1:24.4

I'll let Joel explain.

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