OTOKAI vs The Modality

OTOKAI is an app designed to help you keep both your mind and brain active by enjoying music, using your brain, and staying connected with family and friends. Rather than simply listening to music, OTOKAI encourages you to compare different tracks, make choices, and put what you feel into words. You can also combine music with photos or videos to create your own works. Through the music you enjoy, OTOKAI helps you build a natural habit of using your brain. OTOKAI also includes a closed social network where you can share your creations and thoughts with family and friends. In a safe and private environment, you can stay connected with the people who matter to you and enjoy conversations and shared experiences. Social interaction can support not only emotional well-being, but also the maintenance of cognitive function. The music featured in OTOKAI uses MusicTGA, Amadeus Code’s proprietary technology developed through years of research into the structural patterns of hit songs. By providing a music experience that naturally makes you want to keep listening, OTOKAI supports brain activity while making the experience enjoyable. OTOKAI is designed as a daily brain health habit aimed at helping maintain cognitive function. In our first pilot study, continued participation was associated with improvements in frontal lobe function among older adults. https://otokai.jp/en/specialist/ Music for a healthier mind and brain. Start your daily brain health routine with OTOKAI.

You've heard music from across the world and felt something move in you — without knowing why. The Modality is how you find out. Most apps teach music theory as rules to memorize. The Modality teaches it as something to hear — because every musical tradition is really a different way to turn sound into feeling. We start with two of the most beautiful, and we're adding more. TURKISH MAKAM 29 makams, from Rast to Ferahfeza — each drawn degree by degree, with its microtonal commas marked, its seyir, its mood, the hour it belongs to, and the ney to play it. MODAL JAZZ 14 modes across two scales: the seven modes of the major scale, and the seven of melodic minor — the language of tension and release, from Lydian dominant to the altered sound. WHERE THEY MEET The Crossroads is where the two traditions touch. Hicaz and the Phrygian dominant share one ancient interval — hear them side by side, ney against Rhodes piano. Saba and Locrian reach the same depth of feeling by the same turn. Two musical worlds, one tap apart. THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE MUSIC 64 composers and performers, from Itri and Dede Efendi to Miles Davis and Bill Evans — with portraits, lives, and every place in the app you can hear them. Tap any name on any recording and meet the person. HEAR IT EVERYWHERE - Iconic recordings and taksim improvisations for every major makam - Canonical tunes for every mode — So What, Maiden Voyage, Spain - Songs you already know, mapped to the makam they live in — classical, arabesk, Anatolian rock - Play any scale on the ney or Rhodes, from any root LEARN IT PROPERLY - A guided lesson path in each tradition, from "What is a makam?" up - Quizzes that unlock level by level - A glossary of both traditions' vocabulary — taksim, seyir, voicing, vamp - Usul rhythm patterns with audio For curious listeners, for Western musicians meeting microtones for the first time, and for Turkish speakers rediscovering their own tradition. Two ways of hearing, each one whole. More on the way.