EmotiSphere: From Emotion to Music

Abstract

EmotiSphere is an interactive sensor-based musical instrument that generates music based on a user's current emotional state. Interactions with EmotiSphere draw upon everyday interactions with physical spherical objects, as well as on familiar interactions with music players. EmotiSphere offers a novel way to understand the relationship between emotion and music, and is aimed at people who want to create music and express themselves but do not necessarily possess skills in music composition. We describe the conceptualization and context of EmotiSphere, as well as its technical implementation.