Re:Moonlight Sonata Visualized (2012) [video]
by mannykannot on Sunday January 07, 2018 @10:23PM
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They are very cool - I have just spent the best part of an hour watching / listening to several of them.
Now I am wondering if there is some way to map the consonance / dissonance / diatonic / chromatic structure of a piece of music visually, in addition to (or instead of) pitch. I know next to nothing about music, so I cannot begin to imagine how one might do that.
Re:Moonlight Sonata Visualized (2012) [video]
by vidarh on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:31AM
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Maybe, but I don't think this visualization in particular is well suited to that - it's too hard to keep everything in the field of view, and it doesn't draw enough attention to the more subtle shifts in the right hand.
Tieing the shifts in the patterns in the right hand more clearly visually to when a new chord is struck in the left I think would make it a lot easier to see exactly what's going on.
I think also making it clearer how the fingers move up/down would make it visually more obvious...
It's a very interesting piece to visualize given how much it utilizes repetition with slight variations.
I’ve always wondered if such a visualization can help folks learn music better and more intuitively by stimulating their visual cortex.
The base notes are the darker notes. The red notes are the treble. The ring shows the notes from low to high (left side to right.) The lines look to indicate the sustain.
Chords are easily shown when multiple notes are hit at the same time. It also looks like the measure shows up as an outer ring.
Also what’s cool is how future notes/chords are illustrated by the up and coming items from the middle.