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New mobile tech will change music to suit your mood, movement

According to Norway’s the Local, scientists at a the University of Oslo have developed a new software that will change the music you’re listening to based on your mood and movement.

“Put more simply, your phone, with special unique sensors built into it, can detect how you are moving, determine from your movements your mood, and alter the type of music you're listening to to either enhance or help change it,” the Local reports.

For example, if you’re bouncy and happy, the technology would play a song to suit that. Or, if you’re enraged and running, it would probably play Slipknot. Basically, it’s scoring life with your own soundtrack. Most smartphones already have sensors built in to recognize movement.

Kristian Nymoen, head of the university's  Department of Informatics, said, “With the new system you can use your smartphone and your movements to control how modern compositions sound. The composer’s task is to create a music landscape with a lot of musical soundscapes. Then you control which soundscapes you want to move between, and you can also decide yourself the routes you want to take within the various sound landscapes. The way you move can give some indication about your mood. When you’re in a good mood you move in a different way from when you’re in a bad mood. So we want technology to sense what you are like as a person and to facilitate for you to get what you want for your current frame of mind.”

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