Ever sit behind the kit, wishing that you had one more limb to pull off that crazy polyrhythm with? Well, the possibility of that may not be too far away. A team at Georgia Tech’s Center for Music Technology is currently developing robotic prosthetics that can not only be useful to drummers who have lost a limb, but could also allow two-armed percussionists to add a third, fully controlled by the performer’s brain activity.
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What A Drummer’s Brain Looks Like
We’ve all heard drummer jokes (here are 23 of the best drummer jokes out there) and some of them ARE pretty darn funny! But science has recently been pointing out some incredibly remarkable differences between the brain of a percussionist and that of just your average Joe.
The good people at General Electric released this rad video that begins to touch on the neural connections made as a drummer performs:
For more reading along these lines, check out this I Heart Intelligence post, as well as this from mic.com
For your additional viewing pleasure, Mickey Hart…
