Overview
Music Makes Sense is a theoretical music streaming app that I created for my senior degree project at the Kansas City Art Institute. The idea behind this concept is that you would search for different types of music based on describing words, instead of just separated genres. For example, search for water and come across some lo-fi surf rock bands. The app also provides a space to submit your own answers to the questions: If music had a taste, what would it taste like? What would it smell like, and how would it feel?
Process
This college thesis was a bit of a strange process. I had been working on something entirely different and changed my idea about halfway through the semester. I just love music, so I must have subconsciously known that I had to do something in that realm. The notion came to me in the middle of the night while trying to wrap my brain around what I should really be doing.
It was only the idea of awakening more senses through music that I had thought of at first, so I spent a lot of time interviewing people to get a grasp on how I should make a candle they could burn while listening to certain artists or create a recipe booklet of foods they could eat at the same time.
I landed on a music application after conversing with my professor on how to take my ideas further. I was very proud of how my presentation turned out, and I have plans to take this concept elsewhere in the near future.
Here you can view a video of some interviews and mockups of the app:
Music Makes Sense: your taste in music.