Music Visualization

Project description and objectives:

Due to the fact that music evolves in time, the use of computational technologies for the production and analysis of music has become more common between computing researchers and composers. Actually, the musical science has been advancing in the construction of innovative systems using computer graphics, evolutive computing, and interfaces for gestural music control. In fact, visualization is one of the most promising approaches to aid the learning curve of music audience, particularly, the general audience, in understanding the sophisticated structure in classical music, thanks to our strong visual cognition ability. Although many efforts have been done to the visualization of the sonic characteristics, only few attempts have been reported to visualize the structure of the music. The challenges of visualizing the music structure lie in both pre-processing of the input data and the design of a reasonable graphical representation for music. The project explores some possibilities of producing a 3D animation as a visual extension of a musical performance, through the mapping of color, movement, space, and time to represent the relationship between the visual patterns and the music.

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