Visual Music is an attempt to visualize and communicate patterns found in classical compositions for the piano. It was created in early 2006 as a two week intermediate project on music and sound visualization. Digital musical data is analyzed by custom software to visualize melodic and rhythmic patterns in time with a special focus on intervals and harmonics. Red circles along the vertical axis represent notes in time with their pitch mapped to the horizontal axis (so C1 to the very left, C8 to the very right). The length of each note is shown through the size of each circle.
Finally, white lines are drawn from the top of the piece to each note to communicate the interval to its predecessor, marking abstract balances of harmonic occurrences (Unison to the very left, Octave to the very right). Due to the enormous potential I see in this topic and my interest and grown capabilities in terms of analysis and representation through software, this project is still under further developement.

Visual Music was presented at the exhibition of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam promoting the Interfacedesign program as one of Germany’s places of innovation.