3D Chess And Brainwaves

Hello tuners!

There was a recent post to the alternative tuning list about mapping graphed brainwaves to music,
microtonal or otherwise, and I have often thought about this very same thing....

The important thing is what scale to use on the axis of time and amplitude of these brainwaves, and
EXACTLY how to map them to music, also, what resolution of time and amplitude do we use, I mean, brain waves are analogue, NOT discrete???!!

Correct?!.

I could only assumme that one way of doing this would be to use brainwave amplitude and to map this to pitch, whilst the time axis could be just, well, er...time, then we'd get a whole lot of crotchet notes, for a time resulution of 1 second samples of these brain waves.

Pitch could be arbitary, and discrete, any equal temperments could be used....

Here's another idea:--->And what of feedback that we'd get if we just "watched-and-listened" to our own brainwaves as mapped to sound-and-a-picture graph, I mean WOULD we get feedback, and could we control the sound by listening, thinking differently, modifying the signal, changeing the picture/sound, and then the result is fedback into the system, using a human as a filter?

Anyway, this is not the main point of this post, the main post of this point is to let you all know that I have been giving quite a bit of thought as to how to map a variant of 3D chess to 18ET.

There may very well be multiple ways to do this, but the one I suggest here has one axis (z) use volume, another axis use chromatic scale degree (y), and the other use note length between 1 second and 18 seconds (x).

Please be aware that these are arbitary mappings, though...

You see, -on a 3D board, the rook/queen/bishop type peices can go to vertices (V), edges (E) or faces (F), or combinations of these, (V+E+F, -3D queen's move), (V+F), (V+E), (F+E), (E), (F), (V), and this gives us 13 peices (one 3D queen, and two of the 3D rook/bishop analogues each).

Then there is the king, which is esentially the queen's move albeit only one in each direction (V+F+E), -that's 14 peices, and the two knights and the 2 zebras, moving 2 up and one across in any 3D direction, and 3 up and 2 across in any 3D direction.

There are two of these each, making a total of 18 peices.

Look, I had thought about another microtonal mapping which had us use 18ET pitchs (x-axis), 18 octaves (y-axis), and 18 note lengths (y-axis), and I can think of several others.

Any ideas, and yes, I would like to hear brainwave mapped music, if I only could.

----Sarn.

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