Exploring Music Visualization Using MIDI and Java
2011-04-13
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Exploring Music Visualization Using MIDI and Java
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2011-04-13
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Sheet music has been used to represent a musical piece. One problem with sheet music is its difficulty in displaying a wide range of pitches on a single staff. Also, to some, it is unclear what the relationship is between two notes at a glance. Most importantly, sheet music has difficulty illustrating volume changes, and it does not allow for a continuum of pitches.
This research explored displaying notes on a spiral instead of a staff. The spiral uses spokes to represent common tones, and the notes in the music are represented as collections of cylinders along a time axis perpendicular to the spiral [Belifuss et al., 2003].
A three-dimensional musical display would be difficult to use effectively when read from a page. Computers, though, can represent such a structure usefully. Hence, we tried to develop a working piece of software based on the spiral display.
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Faculty adviser: Dr. John Carlis
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This research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
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Fox, Nathan; Carlis, John. (2011). Exploring Music Visualization Using MIDI and Java. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/104910.
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