Seizure Sonification

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K 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	Right now, my voice is coming to you crystal clear through FocusWrite's audio interface,
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0:22.9	To snag your very own Claret Plus audio interface, head to FocusWrite.com.
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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