Putting the 'Art' in Artemis
Museful
Summary
Museful combines music, mindfulness and data to create a new meditation experience.From mood enhancement and relaxation to full-blown oneness with the cosmos, music has the ability to powerfully shift our state of mind, and while there is a lot of meditation music out there, none of it is personalised to the user. Music offered as content in current meditation applications and music services is pre-produced and "listen only." The music has no way of interacting with the user, it cannot adjust to the user's state of mind, and the user cannot change or adjust the music experience without interrupting their mental state by stopping their focus on meditating to stop the music, select another.
How I Addressed This Challenge
Museful can play a powerful personal assistant role to Astronauts who will be isolated for long periods of time during their journey to the moon and mars. Museful can be their musical companion, and help them have a better sense of their well being
How I Developed This Project
Overview:
Currently, music is statically produced. All of the compositional changes in the music are performed in the recording studio by the artist, and the end result is mixed down by audio engineers to a stereo audio file to be distributed and played. Due to this fixed end production, there is no way to adapt conventionally produced music to the user's state of mind.
The Adaptive Collaborative Technology (ACT) that Museful has invented changes all of this. Fundamentally, ACT encapsulates a package of multichannel audio recordings, samples the user's heartbeat, and remixes the music in realtime to deliver a highly personalised music experience. The result is so highly personalised that the same music composition will be experienced differently every time the user listens.
ACT creates an entirely new paradigm for music composition, distribution and playback, which is perfectly suited towards guiding the user into a meditative state.
How it works:
There are four primary components to the ACT system: ACT-Content, ACT-Mixer, ACT-Monitor and ACT-Analytics
ACT-Content is a data storage component that holds music compositions in a multichannel audio format. This is essentially a file storage mechanism that allows for distribution and delivery of music compositions in the ACT format.
ACT-Mixer is a sophisticated proprietary software platform that plays back the ACT-Content files using a dynamic audio processor. This component performs the realtime mixing of the multichannel audio compositions while the user is listening.
ACT-Monitor is the interface to the user's wearable device used to capture the user's heartbeat in realtime. ACT-Monitor provides this information to the ACT-Mixer to adjust the listening experience.
ACT-Analytics captures the user's experience data over time, enabling insights to assist the user experience based on historical usage of Museful and what compositions have been played.
How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Data from NASA was used to inspire the music produced and chosen for this project, based upon prior work with the Global Orchestra Foundation, which has collaborated with NASA previously.
Additionally, over the past two days we researched and investigated all publicly available data from the Human Research Program (HRP) responsible for characterizing and mitigating human factors and behavioral performance risks associated with living and working in space, and safely returning to Earth.
Specifically in the categories of:
Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions: Focus is on reducing risk to crews on extended duration of future missions caused by the isolated, confined and extreme environments.
and
Sleep: Spaceflight places great demands on astronauts, resulting in sleep loss, circadian desynchronization, and work overload that may result in performance decrements and adverse health outcomes.
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/elements/hfbp/about
Project Demo
https://youtu.be/uW3BoRdXlVE
This video presents an MVP demo of the Museful technology
Data & Resources
Data from NASA was used to inspire the music produced and chosen for this project, based upon prior work with the Global Orchestra Foundation, which has collaborated with NASA previously.
Additionally, over the past two days we researched and investigated all publicly available data from the Human Research Program (HRP) responsible for characterizing and mitigating human factors and behavioral performance risks associated with living and working in space, and safely returning to Earth.
Specifically in the categories of:
Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions: Focus is on reducing risk to crews on extended duration of future missions caused by the isolated, confined and extreme environments.
and
Sleep: Spaceflight places great demands on astronauts, resulting in sleep loss, circadian desynchronization, and work overload that may result in performance decrements and adverse health outcomes.
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/elements/hfbp/about