coton is a Japanese company specializing in audio solutions, using modern technologies to enhance spaces and create meaningful experiences. Our team brings together artists, engineers, and researchers from both industry and academia.

Through the power of Sound and Art, we unlock new perspectives that inspire and enrich the digital society.

coton is a japanese startup company launched by the

Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学).

Solutions & technologies

A sound art solution for well-being, developed by coton and Tokyo University of the Arts. Automatically generating audio for environmental enhancement by blending music, natural sounds and environmental audio shaped around people's cognitive responses.

Original technology transforming smartphones into instruments, each playing a unique part in real time and creating shared musical experiences that connect people in the same space.

Turn the city into a musical instrument! Sound and Extended Reality transform walking into a playful journey. Music evolves with your smartphone's location, bringing energy and joy to the urban landscape.

Other projects and custom solutions

soundtope is our technology for automatic soundscape generation. It creates music and environmental sounds in real time, adapting to individual preferences and external factors.

Designed for both shared environments (offices, lobbies, and malls) and personal use for focus, relaxation, productivity, or creativity, the audio from soundtope evolves naturally according to time of day, season, weather, location, and overall surrounding atmosphere. Its multichannel output ensures flexible yet consistent audio distribution across multiple areas.

Sound gets automatically generated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in order to create a soothing atmosphere, providing soundscapes that adapt in real time to the situation via sensor data, with continuous, evolving audio.

Installation setups

Wide range of implementation scenarios: multiple configurations available to easily adapt to different of environments. A versatile system, suitable for applications such as digital signage, architectural acoustics, web services and more.

To this date, the system has been installed in offices, museums, entertainment venues and retail spaces. Audio can be played in public spaces without copyright concerns: unlike existing tunes, the implemented audio is unique and gets automatically generated.

omnion (ku-kan instrument) is our spatial audio solution: an original technology that synchronizes multiple smartphones and speakers with precision.

It offers a compact and flexible sound system ideal for shops and public spaces, enabling easy management of multi-speaker setups for 3D spatial audio. With intuitive wireless controls, omnion allows seamless reproduction of sound across wide indoor and outdoor areas.

Smartphones and speakers synchronize with high precision, enabling a variety of experiences such as ensemble performances, sound experiments, and musical puzzles. In ensemble mode, for instance, each smartphone is assigned a different instrument—piano, trumpet, violin, and more—all playing together in perfect sync, transforming the group into an orchestra.

We have a proven track record of delivering multi-channel speaker systems for outdoor use. We can provide durable systems that meet requirements for heat, dust and rain resistance.

sonicwalk delivers a new kind of musical experience that seamlessly adapts to its surroundings.

It revitalizes locations and attracts visitors through immersive, sound-based art events, while also supporting technology-driven walking tours and interactive experiences. By creating engaging content that teaches people about local culture and providing information related to tourism, disaster prevention, and community welfare, sonicwalk connects people and places through sound.

After launching the app and putting on headphones, users can experience XR Audio by walking to locations points marked on the map with flashing indicators, like invisible speakers.
•   Possible to experience from smartphone’s browser: sound shifts as the user moves, responding to location and direction.
•   Creating immersive, location-based soundscapes by placing imaginary sounds across the map.

A smartphone app that automatically detects, cuts and rearranges parts of a video in order to turn it into a drum beat.

A smartphone and tablet app that lets you create your own virtual cafe by combining various sounds, voices, and ambient noises to play your favorite sounds.

It turns out humans actually find it easier to concentrate with a moderate amount of background noise. Listening to sounds you enjoy can also boost your motivation. Sometimes background music can actually make it hard to focus. Enjoy it while studying at home, working remotely, or doing nomad work! It's also fun to create a cafe with interesting sounds that don't exist in this world!