Sunday, September 20, 2009

Interesting way of visualizing classical music

Apperently this guy got this idea from a hallucination.
The Music Animation Machine displays a score without any measures or clefs, in which information about the music's structure is conveyed with bars of color representing the notes. These bars scroll across the screen as the music plays. Their position on the screen tells you their pitch and their timing in relation to each other. Different colors denote different instruments or voices, thematic material, or tonality. And each note lights up at the exact moment it sounds, so you can't lose your place.
Some examples:
Beethoven 5th Symphony
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
Debussy, Clair de lune
More videos... I think it's a very nice way to appreciate the music without having to be able to read notes. It's also interesting to see the differences between different pieces and composers.

1 comment:

annom said...

Cool! It looks like an old computer game. Composing seems easy when you see the patterns :)