{"id":4336,"date":"2010-04-20T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:08:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-20T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:08:43","slug":"geeky-music-vis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/geeky-music-vis\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeky Music Visualizations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not since Walt Disney’s Fantasia<\/a>, or G-Force<\/a> on my Mac, have I enjoyed an abstract visualization of music as in this short piece by Renaud Halle called Sonar<\/a>. I’d like him to keep going.<\/p>\n

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In the same vein is Electroplankton<\/a>, by the Japanese wizard Toshio Iwai. You get to make your own “video.” A sample here:<\/p>\n

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But there are other ways to visualize music. One cool experiment projects notes in color stripes which accumulate as the piece is played. The device is called a Clavilux 2000, invented by Jonas Heuer. <\/p>\n

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As Fast Company<\/a> notes about the gizmo:<\/p>\n

Length and vertical position show the force of impact, while width shows how long the note played; the colors correspond to various tonalities. (Discordant notes are marked in contrasting colors.) Thus, the more tonal variations a piece has, the more colors will show up. When a piece is over, the visualization remains, as a visual summary of the music that was just played–what notes were played most, which were loudest, and what harmonies the piece revolved around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not since Walt Disney’s Fantasia, or G-Force on my Mac, have I enjoyed an abstract visualization of music as in this short piece by Renaud Halle called Sonar. I’d like him to keep going. In the same vein is Electroplankton, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}