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MidiVisualiser: interactive music visualisation using VRML

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2001

ALAN GRAVES ,
CHRIS HAND  and
ANDREW HUGILL
ALAN GRAVES
Affiliation:
Music and Innovation Research Group, Centre for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK graves@earthling.net
CHRIS HAND
Affiliation:
Music and Innovation Research Group, Centre for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
ANDREW HUGILL
Affiliation:
Music and Innovation Research Group, Centre for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK Hugill@btinternet.com
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Abstract

This article describes the design and implementation of MidiVisualiser, a virtual environment which provides an interactive visualisation of MIDI music data. Section 1 explores music visualisation in general and examines the role of computers and virtual environments. Section 2 briefly surveys existing music visualisation research and places MidiVisualiser in context. Section 3 examines various techniques of visualisation and discusses composite dimensions and ‘Benediktine cyberspace’, including a description of how visualisation techniques derived from them were used in MidiVisualiser to overcome some of the difficulties associated with representing large numbers of data attributes simultaneously. Sections 4 and 5 contain an overview of the implementation and evaluation of MidiVisualiser, while section 6 discusses future work and conclusions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 15 - 23
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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