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Personally, I love the "Music Animation Machine" visualizations, especially of Bach. Toccata and Fugue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o http://www.yo

Personally, I love the "Music Animation Machine" visualizations, especially of Bach. Toccata and Fugue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o "Little" Fugue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVadl4ocX0M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVadl4ocX0M Also enjoyable: Debussy's Clair de lune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o

TheTarquin 17y ago
Very cool links! Thanks for sharing. These bar-graph visualizations remind me of Gregorian notation for some reason.
RevRal 17y ago
Those links are great since really help you to "see" the relativity notes, which is one reason I like to experiment with my music notation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_scores http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_scores *Here you can read more about Solitude, that crazy looking graphic at the top of the wiki article: http://at.or.at/hans/solitude/ http://at.or.at/hans/solitude/
frankus 17y ago
What's neat about the OP's video is that it shows the "periodicity" of the various octaves. Back in college (1996 or so -- it was on one of the first PowerPC macs) I put together an animation for a class project that was sort of a combination of the two using Bach's Invention #13. The view was of traveling down a tunnel of a sort of swirly green fog. Each note was represented by a little yellow or magenta stripe painted on the inside of the tunnel, based on which "part" (i.e. hand) was playing it. The angular position was determined by the pitch (which wrapped around at each octave), and the length of the stripe was determined by the duration of the note. All in all it was a really effective way of visualizing the song. I wish I would've videotaped it, because the source code is long gone and wouldn't run on modern hardware anyway.
- eru 17y ago
  > I wish I would've videotaped it, because the source code is long gone and wouldn't run on modern hardware anyway. Emulation could have worked.
eru 17y ago
It's too sad the region where Bach (and I!) lived does not produce such outstanding musicians any longer.

TheTarquin 17y ago

Very cool links! Thanks for sharing. These bar-graph visualizations remind me of Gregorian notation for some reason.

RevRal 17y ago

Those links are great since really help you to "see" the relativity notes, which is one reason I like to experiment with my music notation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_scores http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_scores *Here you can read more about Solitude, that crazy looking graphic at the top of the wiki article: http://at.or.at/hans/solitude/ http://at.or.at/hans/solitude/

frankus 17y ago

What's neat about the OP's video is that it shows the "periodicity" of the various octaves. Back in college (1996 or so -- it was on one of the first PowerPC macs) I put together an animation for a class project that was sort of a combination of the two using Bach's Invention #13. The view was of traveling down a tunnel of a sort of swirly green fog. Each note was represented by a little yellow or magenta stripe painted on the inside of the tunnel, based on which "part" (i.e. hand) was playing it. The angular position was determined by the pitch (which wrapped around at each octave), and the length of the stripe was determined by the duration of the note. All in all it was a really effective way of visualizing the song. I wish I would've videotaped it, because the source code is long gone and wouldn't run on modern hardware anyway.

eru 17y ago
> I wish I would've videotaped it, because the source code is long gone and wouldn't run on modern hardware anyway. Emulation could have worked.

eru 17y ago

It's too sad the region where Bach (and I!) lived does not produce such outstanding musicians any longer.