My mission over the last decade has been to help reduce suffering by targeting what we should be spending a third of our lives doing. The problem we are addressing is the world is even more stressed, anxious, overwhelmed and sleep deprived which is having a negative impact on mental and physical health and wellbeing. The data is showing that every night millions of people are falling asleep to my music and soundscapes, so we know it’s working. In 2018 I released my Sleep Better album on Universal Music, so in the last four years I have built an extensive catalogue of wellbeing music that’s really working. My name came up as I compose content for apps like Calm, Sleepcycle and Breathonics. Platoon approached me to talk about creating an album for their well-being and mindfulness music catalogue as they’re working on more content in the area of meditation and sleep music. Tell us about the origins of the Spatial Sleep Music album Middleton's new album: Spatial Sleep Music (Image credit: Tom Middleton) Labels are looking at ‘spatialising’ their back catalogue of classic albums but I see an opportunity for spatial audio to be leveraged for wellbeing. But the idea of ‘surround sound’ for consumer music is still quite novel. Some might still have their ‘surround sound’ 5.1 set ups for watching movies. Some people have access to tech that delivers or decodes the spatial audio format, such as Apple Music and Dolby Atmos. Yeah, right now we’re in an interesting transition. We gave everyone a mid-afternoon nap opportunity.Ĭompanies such as Dolby, with Atmos and Apple with Apple Music and Airpods have made spatial audio a hot topic Very positive feedback – and most importantly – some invitees were snoring! So it definitely worked. We had a really good turnout for both the 3D L-ISA Multichannel and the 4D Sensate experience - more on that later. How did you find the Spatial Sleep Music event? We caught up with Tom a few days later to discuss the project, the potent powers of spatial audio and music’s place in reducing suffering and improving human wellbeing. At the album's launch event at the L-Acoustics L-ISA experience space in North London, Tom’s guests were treated to a cutting edge spatial sound playback of the album and in-depth examination of the science behind the sound.
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