Smalin's Youtube - Music Animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=6s0Mp7LFI-k
This is a link to one of Smalin's animated videos, which takes any song and graphically represents it in spacial/video format. This and similar technologies available on the net have helped me not only to learn a song more completely, but to understand the composers' intent as well, since the counterpoint is so clearly graphed out. With this kind of technology, it becomes easier to analyze a large piece of music, or one that has a wide array of instruments. A useful tool for ANYONE INTENDING TO COMPOSE in their career
This seems like a really good use of technology which allows people who are analyzing music to have a visual. By legitimately watching the music progress you can experience the highs and lows of the piece in a whole new way, and put a visual to the aural. Really interesting concept.
ReplyDeleteThis reminded me a lot of when I was more interested in composing. I started studying 20th century visual scores and ran across several modern MIDI visualizations like this. Composing via picture really appealed to me. The first link is to a Stockhausen recording...the composition was written with a visual score in order to overcome the limitations of traditional notation on accurate representation of non-diatonic sound. The second link is something I'll be writing a PLN on in the future...it's a program which converts sound into images, and images into sound.
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http://photosounder.com/
This is FANTASTIC!!! It adds an element to learning that many teachers neglect while teaching music- visuals! Even when looking at a score, a student might not get the sense of how all the parts work together. This would allow them to get a visual sense of the instrumentation, and show them how their parts fit together with others.
ReplyDeleteGreat find, Justin. I have used his work in my classes with children before - Beethoven 7, 2nd movement is particular favorite of mine because of the visual representation of the ostinato.
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