Feel it First, Find it Faster.
Emotional music search across 9 perceptual dimensions, 13 discrete emotions, and 60+ psychoacoustic features.
Music generation is broken. We generate from prompts, but we experience music through emotion. A track can make you feel wonder, tension, or nostalgia in ways that are hard to put into words.
Aurana bridges this gap. We analyzed ~8,000 tracks from the Free Music Archive (FMA) across 165+ acoustic and emotional features, then project the results into an interactive star field where proximity means emotional similarity. Drag a cursor to describe how you want to feel, and the nearest tracks light up.
The result is a new way to generate music — not by what it is, but by what it does to you.
Aurana's emotional mapping is grounded in peer-reviewed music cognition research.
Geneva Emotional Music Scale
Nine dimensions of felt emotion — wonder, transcendence, tenderness, nostalgia, peacefulness, joyful activation, power, tension, and sadness — developed by Marcel Zentner at the University of Geneva.
Zentner et al. (2008) — Emotions Evoked by the Sound of Music →Discrete Emotion Taxonomy
Thirteen discrete emotions — from amusement and triumph to anxiety and defiance — identified through large-scale listening studies by Alan Cowen and Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley.
Cowen et al. (2020) — What Music Makes Us Feel →Deep Psychoacoustic Analysis
Spectral centroid, MFCCs, chroma, harmonic complexity, rhythmic regularity, dissonance, roughness, and more — extracted via librosa, Essentia, and custom DSP pipelines.
Tzanetakis & Cook (2002) — Musical Genre Classification →Aurana generates optimized prompts from every track's emotional and acoustic fingerprint. Copy a prompt directly into your favorite AI music generator:
High-fidelity music generation with expressive control over genre, mood, and instrumentation.
Full-song generation from text prompts — lyrics, vocals, and production in seconds.
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