How commercial AI-generated ambient music helps me sleep, when there are a lot of good reasons to lie awake at night

AudioPaper for Ambient Music Conference at RMC, Copenhagen

I presented this paper with a charmingly long title at the Ambient Music Conference held at RMC in Copenhagen and organised by Jan Høgh Stricker and Mimmie Bie of RMC, Holger Schulze of the University of Copenhagen and Ulrik Schmidt of Roskilde University.

It seemed like it went down pretty well. It’s about my relationship with an app called Endel, which I sometimes use to help me sleep and why I am worried about how good it is at that. There is a script too, and if anyone is interested in that, get in touch, and I’ll edit from the working copy I used for the recording. I do consider this whole thing a draft. I think it needs another five minutes and a better microphone, but I genuinely think there is something to it that moves beyond the text of the argument. Have a listen.