Using people’s brain waves as the notes, scientists have created music. The researchers from China took brain wave readings from EEGs as the original source and used complex math to create pitch and rhythm for the waves. If their methods were improved, according to the Neruotopia 2.0 blog, the music could be used to detect Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, or other irregularities in the brain.
Here are a few of the tracks that the researchers have created so far:
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and why is cat-on-keyboard not "real music"?
Alvin Lucier did this years ago: http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/luciersolo.html
I have perfect pitch, and I have always maintained that I don't hear the pitches, I feel them.