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My long term interest has been to create and solve problems encountered in the visualization of music as an abstract phenomenon. This self-authored system for translating musical compositions into visual performance involves the interaction of multiple layers of information in a complex way. I have been developing and using an almost living, always expanding system for the specific purpose of making visual the structure of a variety of music.
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The international Musical Instrument Digital Interface standard used by the industry. It is a binary code.
E.g., the relationship between a Baroque building and Baroque counterpoint, or a rock formation which suggests the mode of sound production for a class of instruments.
Keys which are next to each other are closely related because they share many of the same notes in their scales. It is called a circle of fifths because the keys move by fifths, e.g. the key of C Major has no sharps or flats. If you count up five notes to G Major you will find only one sharp in the scale.
The Virtual Color Organ has and is being supported by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of III. at Urbana-Champaign, including time in their CAVE and also funds for software support. Silicon Graphics has given hardware support and EAI has given Sense8’s World Tool Kit the program being used to develop the Virtual Color Organ. Ars Electronica provided the initial research and development money, Robert Putnam from the Scientific Computing and Visualization Group at Boston University is doing the interactive, kinetic sound placement and 3D localization. Art and Science Collaboration, Inc (ASCI) is supporting the project as the umbrella organization to receive non-profit funds. The University of Loughborough, LUTCHI Research Centre, UK will be giving hands on support for the project when Jack Ox is artist-in-resident during July 2000.
The National LambdaRail is a new optical network created by researchers and educators with extraordinary high band width that can handle Terabits of information, thereby eliminating most of the delay problem with real-time sound on the older Internet2 system. For more information please go to http://www.nlr.net/.
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Ox, J. (2006). A Complex System for the Visualization of Music. In: Minai, A.A., Bar-Yam, Y. (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35866-4_11
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