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Re: AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

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Post by okc »

ahewett wrote: post #117

Adam from Brain.fm here! Happy to answer any questions. :) I've been doing this stuff for a while and I love talking about it. I've contacted Giovanni, our lead neuroscientist, so hopefully he'll be able to get on soon as well. I'm a regular of HN and it's wild to see something of mine up here.

Hi Could you explain, technically, how and by what you think the brain waves are being manipulated? Thanks

Re: AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

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Post by chae »

ahewett wrote: post #117

Adam from Brain.fm here! Happy to answer any questions. :) I've been doing this stuff for a while and I love talking about it. I've contacted Giovanni, our lead neuroscientist, so hopefully he'll be able to get on soon as well. I'm a regular of HN and it's wild to see something of mine up here.

Hey Adam. I had a question :) I was curious about what sort of model you used to program the "AI" part of it?

Re: AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

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Post by jwr »

ahewett wrote: post #117

Adam from Brain.fm here! Happy to answer any questions. :) I've been doing this stuff for a while and I love talking about it. I've contacted Giovanni, our lead neuroscientist, so hopefully he'll be able to get on soon as well. I'm a regular of HN and it's wild to see something of mine up here.

Honest feedback — I tried the service for 20 minutes (that's the amount of time that life allowed) and it felt promising. But you are fighting a hard battle here:

* "6 free sessions left" might not be enough for me to make sure that the music doesn't engage my creative hemisphere too much (I see this problem with most musical content),

* the pricing is fairly high. I'm in Poland and I pay $5 a month for Spotify, this is what you are compared to. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I need a fairly good justification to pay you $7/month just for ambient work music.

* I could not find out if there is an iPhone app. There seems to be, but I can't find it in the app store, and can't find mention of it on the web. This is important, I often work out of cafes, and I need a phone app with offline capability.

Just for the reference, on my phone you'd be competing with Naturespace, where I bought lots of tracks and which serves my needs for muting out the world around me.

Re: AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

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Post by JonnieCache »

sergiotapia wrote: post #64

I still can't find anything better to program to than Nujabes. I'm going to give this a genuine shot, but Jun Seba really left his mark on me for life. I find myself listening to his albums and songs at least twice a day. I think it's because of his repetitive beats, smooth strings and soft instrumentation. There's a reason there are 10 hour 'homework' edits on youtube for almost all of his songs. Counting Stars: htt…

Don Slepian makes nice ambient/new age music, and is notable for having made it algorithmically at Bell Labs in the late 70s, where he was artist-in-residence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG3_D_CGovg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnIygBoO9eM

Re: AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

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Post by wercab »

alva wrote: post #77
sergiotapia wrote: post #64

I still can't find anything better to program to than Nujabes. I'm going to give this a genuine shot, but Jun Seba really left his mark on me for life. I find myself listening to his albums and songs at least twice a day. I think it's because of his repetitive beats, smooth strings and soft instrumentation. There's a reason there are 10 hour 'homework' edits on youtube for almost all of his songs. Counting Stars: htt…

While we are at it, the following is a selection of musicians whose work for me is both sedative and promotes focus (an oxymoron?). Ambient music usually garners a few sniggers, "this is what they play in spas" "whale music" etc, however in my experience can be an incredibly rewarding and effective method of relaxation and enjoyment. Gas (Wolfgang Voigt) - Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s--IkNqI9og Brian Eno - D…

I have Erothyme on repeat for most of my work: https://erothyme.bandcamp.com/album/circadia
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