New Technology-App helps compose music using power of mind

New Technology-App helps compose music using power of mind

Researchers have developed a new application which may help physically impaired persons write songs and surf internet as well as write emails -- all with the power of their mind.

Using the new brain-computer interface application, developed by Gernot Muller-Putz, scientist at Austria's Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), people can compose music and transfer onto a musical score by wearing an electrode-equipped cap that measures their brain waves.

Such systems are utilised to help users do things such as writing text.

The interface works when users select from the various options, such as letters or notes, pauses, chords, which flash by one after the other on a computer screen. They can also stipulate tone length and pitch.

As these things are selected, they appear as notations on a separate music-composing programme. Once the piece is completed, it can then be played back through that software, the researchers said.

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