What do you get if you cross a neuroscientist, a design studio, and two electronic musicians? You get a collaborative art-science mash-up called Brainwaves from a project called Faster Than Sound, a “strand of programming that joins the dots between musical genres and digital art forms.” For this exhibition, the connection between our most complex organ, the brain, and most elusive of processes, creativity, is explored. The exhibition takes as its theme MRI scans and will feature an interactive sculpture by designers Loop.ph: Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl, with Mira Calix and Anna Meredith creating a musical piece, and Professor Vincent Walsh on hand to dispense invaluable advice, along with giving talks when the event takes place on September 18th. The video above is not of that as yet made piece, but just to give you a sense of what an MRI brain scan actually sounds like. We think it has potential, anyway.

Here’s what their site says:

“Mira Calix’s starting point is the daunting personal experience of a brain scan, which she seeks to humanize in a new work that incorporates string quartet to uplift the electronic sounds of the scanner. Calix will work in collaboration with Anna Meredith in creating the piece. Anna will work more with the electronic sounds created from the machine to compose a new work of hers also.

Loop.pH’s Matthias Gmachl is more interested in the pure electronic sound created by the MRI brain scanning machine, the noises within the brain itself and how they connect with the visual. He will use this to create an interactive sculpture as a visual response to the sound.”

It’s taking place in Suffolk, UK as part of the Aldeburgh Festival. For tickets, go here.