Final Process.2

I've established what I want to do: use a wave shield with certain "brain processing" noises on it. It will look like the brain will be hooked up to some headphones and the sound sensor will be clearly shown so that you can speak into it. I've made the noises already and they are an assortment of sounds that I could imagine being the frequencies that the brain gives off. I've mapped out the 6 main "stages" of brain processing (Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Mu) and based off the frequencies that they give off, I chose those as the inspiration for the noises I created. Here are the noises and the order that they will be depending on the sound threshold (lower threshold is connected to lower frequency; higher is connected to higher).

(so I actually can't upload my .wav files to the blog but the noises are from

1. scratching and smoothing over a pillow

2. shuffling a deck of cards

3. crinkling up some paper

4. crushing an aluminum can

5. a fan turning on

6. nails on a chalkboard

I'm really mad I can't upload the sounds because you really can't tell that any of these are the noises that are on the waveshield. A lot of them are very beautiful and all are very interesting to listen to. Some of them kind of remind me of whale songs, especially the fan noise. The others remind me of like some kind of small robot chattering away when you give it a command and it needs time to process it. The first and second sound pieces are also very soothing to listen to, as they would be going off for small noises, murmuring speech. The fan and chalkboard sounds are much more difficult to listen to, as they would be connected to higher sound thresholds like people yelling. 

Talking with Katerie, though, brought up some important things to consider:
-having a conversation with a brain; that's not super normal. people have conversations with others, not a random brain. why would you want to talk to a brain? it would be interesting, you could learn a lot about it, instead of having to rely on surgery
-it needs to be clear that you're having a conversation with the brain; think about things that invite conversation and think about display. What invites conversation, pleasant atmosphere, homey setting, comfortable. Have brain sitting across the table from viewer. table cloth on table. something kitchen-y? headphones need to be over the head and comfortable. preferably small general space around the viewer so that if you want to murmur into the speaker you can without feeling overwhelmed by the other people around you.
-people eat brains, remember. why is this brain something you can have a conversation with? also remember presentation, you don't want that to come across.
-as far as actual brain goes, looks kind of DIY. do i want that or not? benefits could be less strenuous on viewer/not as intimidating. consequences would be not as "valid." the viewer would clearly know they weren't talking to an actual real brain.