The Leaders
Saoirse Lindqvist
Neuroscientist & Composer
Reykjavík, Iceland
The data was already music. I just had to stop treating the beauty as noise.
Saoirse completed a doctorate in sleep neuroscience before returning to the cello she had abandoned at nineteen. Her lab studies how memory consolidates during deep sleep, and her compositions are scored directly from those recordings.
Her second album, Spindles, was performed by a string quartet while the sleeping volunteer whose brain it came from lay on stage.
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