Some people have waaaaaaay too much time on their hands

[OMD]

You gotta get about halfway into it...

[See Flat]

I wonder if that hurts?

[leoantix]

why only one question is ... WHY

[Battlewagon]

Maybe the Japanese are even more bored than the proliferation of great video games would indicate.....

[NoNameBrand]

I wonder if that hurts?

Well, it's his muscles making the music, not the music/external stimulus making his muscles twitch. Electrodes are just attached onto the skin, not stuck into it.

Neat.

[Pax-raider]

clever idea, but I gotta say I don't believe it. The twitching doesn't match the music once it gets more complex...

Ever the cynic, Pax.

[See Flat]

Well, it's his muscles making the music, not the music/external stimulus making his muscles twitch. Electrodes are just attached onto the skin, not stuck into it.

clever idea, but I gotta say I don't believe it. The twitching doesn't match the music once it gets more complex...

I understand the electrodes are just attached to the skin. I just dont know how much current it takes on the outside of the skin to get muscles to move. And I was mostly thinking of the amount being applied repeatedly for minutes.

As for the music, It would be much easier for whatever source is supplying the current to control the pitch of the oscillator as well and certainly does not have to be as complex as the muscles creating the tones. I would think anyway.

SF

[Cowgirl]

i think ya'll are making this out to be more than it is. looks to me like a guy who taped some funky looking wires to his face, got on his webcam, played some silly music and practiced twitching at the right time and in the right place to look like the wires were doing something. it's entertaining tho

[See Flat]

practiced twitching at the right time and in the right place to look like the wires were doing something. it's entertaining tho

Maybe in Utah hehehe

[OMD]

Uh, guys, Bruce Lee used this same idea to get workouts while doing other things. It is indeed the electrodes making his muscles twitch. He simply figured out a way to have MIDI notes trigger a device that sends electric impulses. They are simply taped to the skin at certain areas. Notice how he was fighting to keep relaxed and started smiling about halfway through. I don't think there's anyone on earth could twitch their face like that at will. If you watch with this in mind the twitching does indeed match the rhythms, especially when you identify which sounds cause the different areas to twitch. With MIDI notes you also have 127 different velocity levels, so it wouldn't be difficult to translate that into varying levels of impulse intensity either. For someone who figured it out, of course.

[See Flat]

Uh, guys,

That should have read.. Uh cute girl... cause she's the only one who had that idea... Utah style! hehe

[OMD]

No, NoNameBrand started the idea. Pay attention.

[See Flat]

Pay attention.

indeed....
NNB clearly stated the electrodes were causing the stimuli, but on the other hand implied the muscles were creating the tones. That part seems unlikely if not impossible. It's clear that anything that creates an electrical signal can change the pitch of an oscillator.
CG is the only one that implied the guy was a twicthing super man! and that the wires had no use but were a prop to make us believe something.

[Cowgirl]

/me leans back in office chair at work... *sigh* look what i started

[OMD]

I wonder if that hurts?

Well, it's his muscles making the music, not the music/external stimulus making his muscles twitch. Electrodes are just attached onto the skin, not stuck into it.

Neat.

Do they teach reading comprehension a little differently up there in Canada?

He is saying that there is no stimulus being provided by the *wires*, but that the *muscles* are the triggers. Stimulus means causing something to take action. CG only took the idea a little further saying he is just following the music with face twitches, that there was no interaction at all. Basically everyone seems to have a problem believing that electrical impulse can cause muscles to twitch. I don't know why this is a problem, it's a very old trick. If you know anything about music technology, you could also see how translating note triggers to electrical impulses of varying degrees is not difficult to imagine at all.

And what's all this about changing the pitch of an oscillator? This guy is using multiple tones, multiple notes, multiple instruments. Technology has progressed way beyond triggering a single oscillator.

[See Flat]

I wonder if that hurts?

Well, it's his muscles making the music, not the music/external stimulus making his muscles twitch. Electrodes are just attached onto the skin, not stuck into it.
Neat.

Do they teach reading comprehension a little differently up there in Canada?

I just remember the parts I want to.

And what's all this about changing the pitch of an oscillator? This guy is using multiple tones, multiple notes, multiple instruments. Technology has progressed way beyond triggering a single oscillator.

I had to listen to it again.... I never got to the part of the clip that introduced the noise... and yes multiple oscillators were capable 40 years ago. It's still pretty basic. I dont know if I would call it multiple instruments and certainly not hearing anything here that benefits from current technology. He's me with an electrode up my anus

[NoNameBrand]

I personally would prefer that electrodes send the electrical signal from the muscle movements to the music-making machine, rather than the other way around, but I don't like shocks. So I projected in my interpretation.

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