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How to Compose Music While You Sleep Computer Scientists at the University of Helsinki, Finland have developed a program to create music from people while they sleep. The composition program is the work of Aurora Tulilaulu, a student of the university. "The software composes a unique piece based on the stages of sleep, movement, heart rate and breathing. It compresses a night's sleep into a couple of minutes" she says. If only it were so easy to create masterpieces. But we have to admit that many of works (all played back with piano voices) actually sound quite good. You can hear them for yourself at the researchers' site.

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