Mood Flow

Good music has direct access to the emotions.  As such it's a fantastic tool for tweaking our moods. Many researchers investigated the ways people use music to control and improve their mood. Music can be entertaining, bring back memories, trigger strong feelings, distract, and comfort. Music creates moods because it betrays your brain and you can use this little trick in your favor. Apply music for your mood, in order to promote or change it.

 Entertainment - At the most fundamental level music provides stimulation. It lifts the mood before going out, it passes the time while doing the washing up, it accompanies travelling, reading and surfing the web. 

Revival - Music revitalises in the morning and calms in the evening. 

Strong sensation - Music can provide deep, thrilling emotional experiences, particularly while performing. 

Diversion - Music distracts the mind from unpleasant thoughts which can easily fill the silence. 

Discharge - Music matching deep moods can release emotions: purging and cleansing. 

Mental work - Music encourages daydreaming, sliding into old memories, exploring the past. 

Solace - Shared emotion, shared experience, a connection to someone lost

This project reflects my interest in music, interactive design and people's emotional state. My interest is to create a project that controls and improve mood with music, through a mobile app since I believe music can accomplish tweaking our moods.   

Precedents

Aupeo

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http://www.aupeo.com/

As you can probably guess by the screenshot, you can also play music you like by entering an artist you enjoy listening to. The stations are grouped by genre and are compiled by AUPEO!’s music experts. Within personal you can play your personal station, which is based on whatever you have previously listened to and requires that you sign up with AUPEO.

Stereo mood

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Stereomood works on many different levels. You can use the inconspicuous search bar at the top and select music for your mood or activity. From the resulting playlist you can either play single songs or the entire list.

Meemix

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MeeMix plays music you like. So it basically works like Last.fm or Pandora. You start a station by entering a song or artist, then you rate whatever MeeMix plays to you, and it will further refine its suggestions.

In addition to playing what you like, you can also push some sliders in the Mood Control on the bottom left to finetune the algorithm that picks the next song for you and plays music for your mood.

 

This project will create not only an audible, but also a visual experience. Getty Images will be combined a clever interface with fantastic background pictures and animations.

You can select one of eight presets, including inspire, excite, refresh, intensify, simplify, or stabilize. You can also manually push the sliders to define your mood in various terms on your iphone app.

A little drag is that Moodflow doesn’t play entire tunes, but only short snippets. However, you can add whatever you like to your Moodboard from your music that is stored on your iphone, save any combination of image/sound snippets, and play your board over and over again later.

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Click here to download:
moodflow.pdf (1.3 MB)
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I need to develop actual program for the next step.

Any comments, suggestions, complaints?