Josef Parvizi was enjoying a performance by the Kronos Quartet when the idea struck. The musical troupe was midway through a piece in which the melodies were based on radio signals from outer space, and Parvizi, a neurologist at Stanford Medical Center, began wondering what the brain’s electrical activity might sound like set to music. He didn’t have to look far for help. Chris Chafe, a professor of music research at Stanford, is one of the world’s foremost experts in “musification,” the process of converting natural signals into music. One of his previous works involved measuring the changing carbon dioxide levels near ripening tomatoes and converting those changing levels into electronic performances.
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