26 September 2012

Turn Dreams Into Music

Computer scientists have developed a method that automatically composes music out of sleep measurements. The composition service works live on the Web. The software was developed at the University of Helsinki, and automatically composes synthetic music using data related to a person’s own sleep as input.


The software composes a unique piece based on the stages of sleep, movement, heart rate and breathing. The project utilises a sensitive force sensor placed under the mattress. Heartbeats and respiratory rhythm are extracted from the sensor’s measurement signal, and the stages of sleep are deducted from them.

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