MuSA: Music Visualization Using the Spiral Array
Allows user to visualize and track tonal patterns in real time for MIDI files. Pitches map to positions in the Spiral Array model, and durations to the radii of the spheres. Each collection of notes also generates a center of effect (c.e.), and the distance of the c.e. to each key. The software was implemented using Java2 SDK, with 3D API.
Goals
- Visualization of pitch structure in tonal music such as chords and keys
- Computational analysis of pitch structure
- Disambiguating pitch spellings using nearest-neighbor techniques
- Using pitch structure to determine groupings for segmentation