Tonos
Tonos is a free mobile app that uses the power of music therapy to help people understand and process their emotions.
Research on the psychology of mood repair shows that music is a powerful tool for emotion regulation, and it works best when the subject listens to music that matches their emotional state.
Tonos goes one step further, by letting you compose your own music that perfectly resonates with your feelings during a step-by-step guided meditation process. You are able to manipulate one musical property at a time — such as rhythm, harmony, and instrumentation — while being voice-guided to understand where the emotion resides in your body, and what triggered it. In the end, the song you create is unique — there are over a thousand possible combinations of sound to match every possible cocktail of feelings. Then you can save and catalog your feelings to listen to later, as well as share them with your loved ones.
Apple App Stope
Downloaded Tonos for free on your iPhone.
Google Play Store
Download Tonos for free on your Android mobile device.
Motivation
When Luis’s green card application was delayed due to Covid-19, he found himself unable to work on any commercial projects. As a creative outlet, he decided to build something that could help people make sense of their complicated emotions during the pandemic.
Wyatt was reading a book written by his friend Gabe Wilson about conflict mediation, called Compassionate Conversations. One of the chapters was about emotional transmutation, which described a seven-step process for processing complicated feelings. Both he and Luis found the process strangely effective, but they also noticed that it was hard to remember all of the steps while feeling strong emotions.
Luis had wanted to try building a mobile app, and is a classical music composer by training, so they decided to combine music theory and emotion therapy to build a mobile tool that can help you maintain your mental health.
Big thank you to Gabe Menegale Wilson, Diane Musho Hamilton, and Kimberly Myosai Loh for teaching us how to feel things more productively, and for inspiring Tonos.
