Occasionally people ask how I “see” music. I do tend to perceive music visually, as a set of continually changing spatial relationships: with distance along axes representing pitch, time and tonal relativity. This technology gives some idea… though I would like there to be a third dimension of visual representation (toward you the viewer) which represents tension and release, i.e. gravity, through distance from the tonic… at the D minor the notes are at the default screen distance from you, and as they move around the circle of fifths they move closer or farther from you.
Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ
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Why am I now in the mood to play Rock Band? Or in this case, Baroque Band?
YOUR CONTRAPUNTAL MOVEMENT IS D! POOR!
wow, someone turned the raiders of the lost ark atari 2600 game into a music video! radical!
Marvelous! And to think that I once could play that (but POORLY!) on an actual organ… It was great to feel the virtual foot-pedals again.
Reminded me of the human voice-pitch displays I built for DARPA back in the ’70s. We also used a fixed "now" point whose height was proportional to pitch, and a time-axis flowing leftwards from "now." This was so much more beautiful… the shapes and colors showed so much of the deep structure of the music. Tnx for the pointer 🙂
Followup: I saw one live realization of the Circle of Fifths — an editor friend posted this in SlashDot:
http://science.slashdot.org…
about a Princeton Prof., Dmitri Tymoczko, whose website is here:
http://music.princeton.edu/…
There’s a Science News blogpost about him:
http://blog.sciencenews.org…
Here’s the specific demo .MOV about a visual representation of the Circle of Fifths:
http://www.sciencenews.org/…
… It doesn’t look like is quuuite what you were looking for, but it’s fun to look at — esp for me since I used to play that piece myself… 🙂