Developed under Hannu Toivonen, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland, the software automatically composes synthetic music using data related to a person’s own sleep as input<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The composition program is the work of Aurora Tulilaulu, a student of Professor Toivonen.<\/p>\n “The software composes a unique piece based on the stages of sleep, movement, heart rate and breathing<\/strong>. It compresses a night’s sleep into a couple of minutes,” she describes.<\/p>\n “We are developing a novel way of illustrating, or in fact experiencing, data. Music can, for example, arouse a variety of feelings to describe the properties of the data. Sleep analysis is a natural first application,” Hannu Toivonen justifies the choice of the research topic.<\/p>\n The project utilises a sensitive force sensor placed under the mattress.<\/p>\n “Heartbeats and respiratory rhythm are extracted from the sensor’s measurement signal, and the stages of sleep are deducted from them<\/strong>,” says Joonas Paalasmaa, a postgraduate student in the Department of Computer Science. He designed the sleep stage software at Beddit, a company that provides services in the field.<\/p>\n The composition service is available online at http:\/\/sleepmusicalization.net\/. The users of Beddit’s service can have music composed from their own sleep, while others can listen to the compositions<\/strong>. The online service is the work of the fourth research team member, Mikko Waris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the University of Helsinki press release via AlphaGalileo: Computer scientists in Finland have developed a method that automatically composes music out of sleep measurements. The composition service works live… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[67,362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6331,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Brain](\"http:\/\/www.therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/BrainMusic.jpg\" "\\"Brain")
Computer scientists in Finland have developed a method that automatically composes music out of sleep measurements<\/strong>. The composition service works live on the Web at sleepmusicalization.net.<\/p>\n