Projet Lullabyte (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Music exerts strong effects on the human brain, as evidenced by both subjective emotional reactions and overt changes in neurophysiology: lullabies are known in all cultures and times as an effective sleep aid for children and adults. Musicology focuses traditionally on musical structures and cultural practice, a mutual interaction with empirical neuroscience is yet missing. The Lullabyte project will for the first time bring leading researchers from musicology, sleep research, neuroscience and computer science together to fill this gap. Within the project, ten Doctoral Candidates will be trained in a radically interdisciplinary research field, and acquire profound skills relevant for industry and the cultural sector. Leveraging state-of-the-art neuroscience laboratories, big sleep datasets gathered with wearable technology, and data science strategies, the Doctoral Candidates will investigate the effects of music on the brain’s transition from wakefulness to sleep, from neurophysiological details of auditory processing in the thalamico-cortical system over changes in sleep structure induced by different kinds of music, to psychological and musicological analyses. Moreover, machine-learning strategies will help to algorithmically generate novel, neuroscience-deduced music with particularly strong somnogenic effects. Beyond hands-on training in these research projects with multiple secondments between the ten consortium partners, summer schools and satellite events with active participation of trainers from innovative industry partners and artists will teach Doctoral Candidates complementary skills in technology transfer, entrepreneurship, medical device regulation and public outreach. As a whole, Lullabyte will train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers, and thus provide the fast growing market of personalized, algorithmically generated music with both a firm scientific basis and the personnel to strengthen Europe’s position in such technologies.

Mots clés : sleep, lullabies, wearables, eeg, generative music, sonification

Participants :
- Institut du cerveau (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Université de Fribourg (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université libre de Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 170291.32 €
- Université technologique de Dresde (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Phonos fundacion privada (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Franche-Comté (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Arenar b.v. (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- KTH Institut royal de technologie (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 293709.6 €
- Université de Stuttgart (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Université Pompeu Fabra (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251971.2 €
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 301788.0 €
- Neuroelectrics (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Endel sound gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 260539.2 €
- Benkana interfaces gmbh & co. kg (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Mentalab gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Radboud University Medical Centre (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274370.4 €