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.

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.

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.

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.

Yuchen Zhang