Analysis of relationships between mood and color for different musical preferences

Abstract

We investigated the relationship between mood and color according to musical preference. Volunteers were requested to select the mood evoked by music and the color associated with a mood word, and the color distributions and mood distributions were then analyzed with two‐way ANOVA using Minitab. The results of the analysis indicated that mood and color were differently distributed, depending on the music genre presented and the musical preference of the listener. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 39, 413–423, 2014

Mood lighting system reflecting music mood

“…, the mood mapping process of music consisted of two phases: one was mood training phase and the other mood identification phase. In the mood training phase, features of each music segment of Moon et al 's were extracted by MIRtoolbox and then were reduced by the R 2 method (see “Mapping Music Segments to Moods” section); using the reduced feature sets of the music segments and their mood information, the relationship between mood and music (or mood mapping model or shortly mood model) was modeled via a neural network. The music segments of Moon et al's had been obtained by dividing the music into several segments via Levy et al method and their mood information had been also collected from several subjects in our previous work .…”

“…In the mood training phase, features of each music segment of Moon et al 's were extracted by MIRtoolbox and then were reduced by the R 2 method (see “Mapping Music Segments to Moods” section); using the reduced feature sets of the music segments and their mood information, the relationship between mood and music (or mood mapping model or shortly mood model) was modeled via a neural network. The music segments of Moon et al's had been obtained by dividing the music into several segments via Levy et al method and their mood information had been also collected from several subjects in our previous work . In the mood identification phase, a new music piece was divided into several segments via Levy et al method; their features were extracted and reduced; the mood of each segment was determined by inputting its reduced features into the mood model built in the training phase.…”

“…To understand the relationship between mood and music, we used Moon et al's mood data set. This data set had been collected for 3 days in a room with only one dark glass window on one side, between the hours of approximately 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.…”

“…Subjects might assign different moods to the same music segment, but it is necessary to define one representative mood per segment; in the training dataset, only the representative mood of each music segment is given. In this article, the representative mood of each segment was calculated using the definition in Moon et al 's study …”

“…To map mood to color, the relationship between mood and color was analyzed using Moon et al 's color data set. This data set was collected by asking subjects to select a color matching a mood word, under the same conditions described in the section on collecting moods of music.…”