Diploma project
Autumn 2024
Institute of Design
Do you ever wish to tell your story through music? Or per-haps you feel emotions that words simply cannot capture? Have you ever considered using music as a way to express your feelings?
Lyra is a system designed for everyone—no musical skills required. By transforming your stories and emotions into music, Lyra helps you experience, recognize, express, and understand emotions on a deeper level.
Lyra is a system designed for everyone—no musical skills required. By transforming your stories and emotions into music, Lyra helps you experience, recognize, express, and understand emotions on a deeper level.
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The project mainly consists of two parts:
1. AI music generation online platform: Based on AI technology, it converts users’ stories into music and sounds, and supports users to create emotional music.
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The online platform focuses on converting users’ emotions and stories into music, inject-ing more possibilities of emotional expression into music creation.
In the design of physical products, this project provides users with a new interactive experience by studying different theories, discussing with professionals, and exploring a variety of music editing methods.
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Lyra’s core goal is to develop a new tool and method:
- Help users improve their emotional abilities, especially in the areas of emotion recognition, expression, and understanding.
- Allow users to create unique and resonant music through emotions, opening up new ways of emotional expression and music creation.
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Yuchen Zhang