Emotional AI for cultural spaces

Music shaped by your visitors’ emotions.
Inspired by your collection.

Each visitor stands in front of your artworks and feels something. DeepSoundMe reads that - and turns it into music. Personal, unrepeatable, theirs alone.

“Listen. That’s an AI, you know? An artificial intelligence.

The music it played for you… probably just dug some stuff

out of your data banks and put together something it thought

you’d like.”

William Gibson · Neuromancer, 1984

Emotional AI

Generative AI responds to instructions. Emotional AI responds to the body.

Generative AI

Responds to your prompts. You tell it what you want. The intelligence is in the question.

Emotional AI

Responds to what each visitor feels. It reads biometric signals in real time. No prompts. No commands.

Each visitor leaves with a personal playlist of their visit – one track per artwork, shaped by their own emotional journey. A souvenir no gift shop can offer.

How it works

Watch art.
Feel art.
Listen to your
emotions.

01

Watch art.
Each visitor wears a smartwatch and stands in front of an artwork, free to look, linger and feel — no app, no prompts, nothing to do.

02

Feel art.
A wearable sensor reads each visitor’s emotional response in real time – no input, no choices, no prompts.

03

Listen to your emotions.
At the end of the visit, each visitor receives a personal MP3 – the soundtrack of what they felt, in front of each work.

Scientific foundation

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Brain activations to emotional pictures are differentially associated with valence and arousal ratings.

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany

Background music enhances attention – the impact of music on film audience’s attentional processes.

Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea

Music and other background sounds can have positive effects on a number of cognitive functioning areas.

University of Haifa, Israel

Where we have done it

01

Archaeological site · UNESCO World Heritage
L’Esercito di Terracotta
Fondazione Barumini Sistema Cultura – Sardegna

An immersive VR experience that transports viewers directly to China, where they can discover the Terracotta Warriors Army. Thanks to DeepsoundMe, each visitor hears personalized sounds and music, making the film experience unique and moving.

02

Contemporary art museum · Capitale italiana dell’Arte 2026
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Ludovico Corrao Gibellina, Sicilia

The contemporary art museum, featuring works by Schifano, Rotella, Accardi, and the masters of Italian Arte Povera, offers every art lover the opportunity to immerse themselves in personalized sounds and stories. DeepsoundMe creates soundtracks that accompany the visit in real time, enhancing the dialogue with the pictures, with music generated by human emotions.

03

Synesthetic art museum · Napoli
Museo Hermann Nitsch
Fondazione Morra – Napoli

The Hermann Nitsch Museum becomes the set for a VR experience titled S.I.L.V.A., where science fiction and the art of Hermann Nitsch, and are managed by soundtracks created in real time by performers. DepesoundMe, thanks to instant evaluation of emotional patterns, deploy its effort in contemporary cinema with new immersive technologies too.

about 

DeepSoundMe was born from a simple observation: every visitor experiences the same artwork differently. We built the technology to honor that difference.

The platform operates through three layers: biometric sensing – a wearable captures galvanic skin response and heart rate variability in real time; emotional interpretation – the Ekman scale maps signals to six fundamental emotions; musical generation – AI assembles fragments from a library composed entirely by human artists.

The composition is unique to that visitor, in that moment. It cannot be repeated.

Music Design

“For the DeepSoundMe project, the goal was to create sound folders containing a vast number of musical fragments, perfectly compatible with each other. The stylistic approach, rooted in ambient music, adapts dynamically to the emotional states detected by the software.”

Pier Paolo Polcari - Co-founder & Music Designer

The Ekman scale

The musical library is structured around the six fundamental emotions identified by psychologist Paul Ekman as universal across cultures. Each emotional state maps to a specific musical vocabulary.

press

Novembre 2025 · Milano

Linecheck Music Meeting & Festival

Innereo and Linecheck present the DeepSoundMe Hackathon – a call for composers and producers to create original tracks for the DeepSoundMe library.

Novembre 2024 · Roma

MindTeam Event

Innereo, BrainSigns and Feel Center present MindTeam – a program combining neuroscience, AI and training for corporate wellbeing.

Aprile 2023 · Milano

Milano Design Week · 5VIE

DeepSoundMe is part of Silent Hollows by Richard Yasmine – combining physical sculpture and AI-generated personalized soundscapes at the 5VIE district.

2023 · Barcellona

Mobile World Congress

Innereo presents DeepSoundMe at MWC Barcelona – real-time emotional state detection through GSR signals enabling personalized music generation.

Design Week Milano(2023)

Mixed media installation.

Watching the awesome Richard Yasmine’s installation, many people experienced instant music and personal soundtracks

Bring DeepSoundMe to your venue

Every space has its own
emotional frequency.

Tell us about yours. We design each implementation around
the specific context of your venue.

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