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AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

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

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Post by j45 »

sklivvz1971 wrote: post #27
jasbrainfm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there, we don't use binaural beats. Or isochronic tones. Our CTO (Adam Hewett) is the founder of Transparent Corp. His older software is used to create the vast majority of isochronic tones, and all those videos you see on youtube, etc. Any rhythmic audio stimulus will entrain the brain. Actually, the very first research on audio brainwave stimulation used simple clicks. As another example if you had a drummer tha…

Can you provide evidence of the effectiveness of your methods? Are there peer reviewed studies that sustain your statements? Spot checking the site, there isn't much convincing evidence (a double blind trial with very few subjects that you sponsored is not really convincing).

It might be worth trying it out with an open mind, never know you might like placebo till the study arrives.

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

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Post by j45 »

jtmarmon wrote: post #10

been using this for months and enjoying it a lot while hacking. i definitely get into flow more quickly and stay in it more easily

Me as well. Some of the tracks (or rather the instruments that seem to show up regularly) are starting to build some muscle memory to at least trigger my brain to start focussing.

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

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Post by Hydraulix989 »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #33

I just worked on something similar at a hackathon this weekend with the Muse Headband, it was really fun. We used a support vector machine to maximize the "calmness" output of the band, which is some weighted sum of gamma and beta waves I believe.

What you've worked on sounds much more scientific than OP.

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

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Post by Hydraulix989 »

sklivvz1971 wrote: post #27
jasbrainfm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there, we don't use binaural beats. Or isochronic tones. Our CTO (Adam Hewett) is the founder of Transparent Corp. His older software is used to create the vast majority of isochronic tones, and all those videos you see on youtube, etc. Any rhythmic audio stimulus will entrain the brain. Actually, the very first research on audio brainwave stimulation used simple clicks. As another example if you had a drummer tha…

Can you provide evidence of the effectiveness of your methods? Are there peer reviewed studies that sustain your statements? Spot checking the site, there isn't much convincing evidence (a double blind trial with very few subjects that you sponsored is not really convincing).

As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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

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Post by siddboots »

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #43

Brainwave entrainment is pseudoscience. The placebo effect is powerful.

Ambient sound has a tremendous capacity to alter one's mood.

Causal explanations in terms of brainwaves, etc, are invariably psuedoscience, but that does not mean that the placebo effect is the only thing going on here.

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

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Post by Ensorceled »

louprado wrote: post #31

Does this music ever repeat ? I can't tell if it is a play list of previously AI generated music or continuously novel AI generated music. I stopped listening to focusatwill.com because the repetition was too distracting even with a paid subscription.

Yeah, that's why I stopped with focusatwill.com as well. Once the same music came up 4 or 5 times it stopped working ... and so did I.

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

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Post by mtdewcmu »

jkxyz wrote: post #15

I'm sure that most of the benefit of using this tool is derived from the fact that the music is consistently low-tempo and relaxing ambient music. Comparing that to an album of ambient music, it might not be so consistent in its style and so could distract from the focus. Still, the generated music is quite nice. I still feel that I'd rather listen to a real album, though, created with artistic intent and not compute…

It's putting me to sleep, even though I'm listening through speakers and not headphones.
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