Movies from music: Visualizing musical compositions

Authors:
J. B. Mitroo;Nancy Herman;Norman I. Badler
Affiliations:
-;-;Department of Computer and Information, Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Venue:
SIGGRAPH '79 Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Year:
1979

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Abstract

A theory of music visualization proposed by Nancy Herman postulates an association between colors and pitches of musical scales. A color raster graphics display is used to generate images of notes, chords, and chord progressions based on this theory. Temporal adjacency of notes or chords is mapped to spatial adjacency of colors, usually in a concentric pattern of squares or circles. By varying certain image parameters, different “brush stroke” effects may be obtained. Illustrations of several computer generated “musical paintings” are included, along with some original paintings for comparison.