MMRL Publication List
Towards Building an Experiential Music Visualiser
Suranga Chandima Nanayakkara, Elizabeth Taylor, Lonce Wyse, S.H. Ong
6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), December 10-13, 2007
Abstract
There have been many attempts to represent music using a wide variety of different music visualisation schemes. In this paper, we propose a novel system architecture which combines Max/MSPTM with FlashTM that can be used to build real-time music visualisations rapidly. In addition, we have used this proposed architecture to develop a music visualisation scheme that uses individual notes from a MIDI keyboard or from a standard MIDI file and creates novel displays that reflect pitch, note duration, characteristics such as how hard a key is struck, and which instruments are playing at any one time. The proposed music visualization scheme is a first step towards developing a music visualization that alone can provide a sense of musical experience to the user.