New visions new horizions?

[MP you know me]

I came across you're website on a search for an answer but gave up in the end and thought i would write something on here instead. I head it on the underground that healthcare is where it is at with ever evolving pieces of technology!!!. I just wondered as a member of the general public who has absolutly no connection to any of the founding members of Sonodrome whether this is something you would be looking into in the near future? As a member of the general public who has a general concern about the ever increasing amount of dementia patients (it's over 700,000 now ).

As a fan and a friend I look forward to a response.

Regards

A concerned / friendly member of the public

[Jim]

Creative music technology and healthcare are always crossing paths -

In 1965 Alvin Lucier did the first ever performance of music using an Electroencephalograph -
Music for a Solo Performer

Another interesting idea is using data from a fMRI scan as a kind of musical score -
Neuroskeptic

I guess technology development is normally done where the money is at. Once a technology is developed it doesn't always get used for it's intended use. For instance the Theremin was originally funded as a military research project into proximity sensors.

So in that regard - I like to keep an eye on technological development outside of the field of audio and sound tech. It's all about cross-fertilization and interpenetration of ideas.

Plus music has been a tool and area of study in the medical arena for donkeys years - it seems music and science are inexplicably linked. My favorite example of this (tis a bit crude and invasive by todays standards, but it's still a great example of how sound and music is extremely fundamental in the way in which brains function) - The Neuronal Representation of Pitch in Primate Auditory Cortex <- this is based on an original experiment performed on an owl, I'm not sure we will understand the significance of these experiments for a long time yet.