Our mission, and how our model works
The Harmonyheal team aims to contribute as much to society as possible with our expertise in our respective fields. Through our combined passion in neuroscience, music, and computer science, we aimed to crack the code beneath why classical songs stood the test of time. Through a medical literature review, we have been able to identify four components in classical music which contributes the most to whether a piece is has therapeutic qualities or not, and those four features are spectral flux (the intensity of a song), spectral rolloff (its pitch), accented beats, and its tempo. We have designed an audio analysis program to extract these features hidden within each classical piece to evaluate its effectiveness in reducing depressive or anxious moods through a mathematical model. You can download code here. Songs that have been evaluated by the computer program as effective in helping with depressive or anxious moods through our model will go into the website’s database, and as the user answers the questionnaire the website will run the response through a second mathematical model to provide the most compatible pieces for each user according to their severity of depression or anxiety based on the questionnaire.