What you see is what you get: On visualizing music

Abstract

Though music is fundamentally an aural phenomenon, we often communicate about music through visual means. The paper examines a number of visualization techniques developed for music, focusing especially on those developed for music analysis by specialists in the field, but also looking at some less successful approaches. It is hoped that, by presenting them in this way, those in the MIR community will develop a greater awareness of the kinds of musical problems music scholars are concerned with, and might lend a hand toward addressing them © 2005 Queen Mary, University of London.