You might realise by now that I enjoy musical visualisations. Here’s another, showing the beauty and musical variation within J.S. Bach’s Prelude in C major from the first Well Tempered Clavier volume.
A long time ago, in what feels like a galaxy far away, which was actually Morley in the early 21st Century, I played this piece of music as part of my A-Level recital alongside Mrs Wilkinson (?), one of the music teachers. I recall rehearsing this for months but realised recently that it had been […]
The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see–literally–the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of […]