Music tools tailor tunes to help you sleep

• Autores: Nicole Kobie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3122, 2017, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • New compositions designed to help adults relax sound rather different to Rock-a-bye Baby. Boston-based start-up Sync Project uses biometrics to tailor music to their mood. Its Unwind app measures their heart beat via their smartphone's accelerometer and uses this to tweak an ambient track by UK band Marconi Union. After listening, they take a brief survey on how relaxed they feel. As well as gathering data via the app, the firm plans to collect biometric readings from those at an overnight performance of composer Max Richter's 8-hour album Sleep--designed to help people nod off--in London next month