Tonamic Crafting Emotion into Music
Tonamic transforms real-time emotions into music, pioneering a revolutionary expressive language that transcends traditional musical boundaries.
We are developing an Android app, DJ Bach, soon to be released on Google Play. We invite you to stay tuned for these developments.
Read MoreThe aim is to open up new domains of artistic creation, adaptive music generation, and potential applications in fields as varied as entertainment, research, therapy, and gaming.
Read MoreThis venture aims to convert brain waves into a musical lexicon, offering groundbreaking applications in artistic expression and scientific research.
Read MoreOur approach complements conventional music composition by focusing on the intrinsic relationship between tonality and emotion, rather than reproducing existing musical styles.
Read MoreTonamic is about exploring music at a very fundamental level, diverging from traditional music theory and mainstream AI music.
At the core of our team lies a shared passion for music, science, and technology, fueled by a collective drive for innovative musical composition. We view artistic creation not just as a form of expression, but as a fundamental human need for communication. To us, the idea of replacing artists with machines is akin to feeding a robot that simulates eating—a momentarily amusing but ultimately futile endeavour.
Read MoreTo illustrate how Tonamic's emotion-driven approach compares with other music generation methods refer to the table below:
| Traditional | Improvisational | AI-Based | Algorithmic | Interactive | Live Coding | Tonamic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requires Musical Knowledge/Skillset | |||||||
| Large Sample Data Collection | |||||||
| Real-time Composition | |||||||
| State-based Algorithmic Rules | |||||||
| Real-time User Interaction | |||||||
| On-the-fly Editing and Adaptation | |||||||
| Prescribing Emotional Input | |||||||
| Generative Algorithms | |||||||
| Immediate Auditory Feedback | |||||||
| Non-Aleatoric Deterministic Output | |||||||
| Conversion To Musical Notation | |||||||
| No Predefined Rules or Grammar | |||||||
| Customization of Properties | |||||||
| Producing Very Familiar Output |
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We invite you to experience the unique outcomes of our project through electronic renditions available on our YouTube channel. These samples showcase the application of our prescribed tonal properties, offering a glimpse into the diversity of the output in terms of genre, quality and some general measures of the emotional content. The graphs below show the wide distribution of the quality and valence of our initial compositions, not only reflecting our moods and expression skills while composing but also underling the capacity of the Tonamic system as a versatile musical instrument. Your compositions can and will be different!
Distribution of the Quality Score of 60 pieces that we have composed using the Tonamic system, according to SoundCloud's Musiio Tag. The composers of these pieces have had no prior training in musical composition.
Distribution of the Mood Valence of the same 60 pieces according to SoundCloud's Musiio Tag. More than half of the pieces have a neutral valence. The positive values indicate pleasant emotions as happiness.
We are developing an Android app, soon to be released on Google Play. We invite you to stay tuned for these developments.
We are collaborating with Brainihacks, a group of brilliant research students at Tilburg University, on translating the emotional features of brain waves into music.
