Cove Puts You In Touch With Your Emotions Through Music

(light ambient music)

[Man] Emotions are hard, like really hard.

And sometimes words just don't do our feelings justice.

But what if you didn't have to talk about your emotions?

What if you could express them simply by making music?

That's the idea behind a new app called Cove,

from design studio Humane Engineering.

Cove is like a mood journal, only instead of using words

to express how you feel, you use music.

To build a song, you drop stones into a flowing river.

As the tide washes over the digital rocks,

they play a sound, kind of like pins

plucking the teeth of a music box.

(light ambient music) You can change the key

of your song by selecting a new mood filter,

choosing playful, for instance,

will give your song a cheerful major chord tone,

while something like struggling

blankets your melody with an ominous minor chord vibe.

When you're done you can add tags and a note that explain

in more detail how you're feeling at that given moment.

The app's creators say Cove was designed

with teenagers in mind, but we think it's useful

for anyone interested in monitoring their emotional health.

Because let's be honest, I think we all know

even adults could use a little help

in expressing how they feel sometimes.