Soundtrip — Instruments for sound and the brain
SOUNDTRIP
Sound × Neuroscience · San Francisco

Watch sound move the brain.

Soundtrip builds open research instruments for studying how music and immersive audio shape the living brain — measured in real time, on hardware people already own.

Launch Nouscope View on GitHub The research program ↓
EEG · Four Channels
Illustrative Signal
TP9
AF7
AF8
TP10
Featured Instrument

Nouscope

A real-time neuro-instrument that runs in the browser. Nouscope streams EEG, heart, and motion data from a consumer headset and paints the signal as it arrives — scrolling traces, viridis spectrograms, band power, signal complexity, and a live analysis of how the brain entrains to the music you are hearing.

Works with Muse headsets today. BrainFlow support is on the way, opening Nouscope to a wide range of research and consumer EEG devices.

Live Signal
EEG, PPG, and motion drawn the moment they arrive — no upload, no wait.
Entrainment
Tracks how neural rhythms lock to the tempo and texture of the audio.
Spectra & Complexity
Band power δ–γ and multiscale entropy, updated continuously.
In the Browser
Nothing to install — connect a headset and the session begins.
Spectrogram
8–50 Hz
50
8
δ  0.41
θ  0.28
α  0.63
β  0.19
γ  0.07
Research Program

Three instruments, one question: how does listening change us?

01
Live

Nouscope

Sound and the living brain

Real-time EEG × audio observation: what happens in the brain, second by second, while we listen?

About Nouscope →
02
Alpha

Soundscapes

Immersive audio and the mind

Explorable 3D soundscapes for rest, focus, and meditation — and a testbed for what spatial, screen-free audio does to a resting mind.

About Soundscapes →
03
In development

Kuhn

Writing the science down

A scientific writing tool with embedded AI agents — grounded citations, figures, and review, from draft to PDF.

About Kuhn →
Open Instruments

Our tools are public. The code is on GitHub, the methods are documented, and anyone can look at how the measurements are made.

Real Time First

Listening happens in the moment, so our instruments do too. We study the brain while it listens, not in a report afterwards.

Consumer Hardware

Lab-grade questions on devices people already own — so the research can leave the lab and meet everyday listening.

Work with us

We collaborate with researchers, clinicians, device makers, and curious listeners. If you want to run a study, integrate a device, or just talk about sound and the brain — write to us.

[email protected] github.com/soundtrip-health →