visualizing music . |
Next generation visual displays automatically choreographed to the music
In the book, HARNESSED, our Human Factory founder provides a wealth of evidence that music has culturally evolved to sound like a person moving emotionally around you. Music thereby sounds like something humans evolved to be great at processing, namely the behavior and emotions of people. That’s why music is so evocative, feels so natural, and can even make us move.
But, in this light, it’s possible to build better visual displays that correspond to music. Knowing that music is treated by your brain as the evocative movements of a human, the visualizations should explicitly take that into account.
For example, one can build software that, for any piece of music, automatically translates it into a visualization of the associated human movement, viewed from the listener’s vantage point. A large variety of such visualizations can be built, and because they are capturing the right visualization for the music, the artistic effect on the viewer/listener should be much more profound than existing visualizations which use fairly arbitrary, not evolutionarily grounded, visual-auditory mappings.
In the book, HARNESSED, our Human Factory founder provides a wealth of evidence that music has culturally evolved to sound like a person moving emotionally around you. Music thereby sounds like something humans evolved to be great at processing, namely the behavior and emotions of people. That’s why music is so evocative, feels so natural, and can even make us move.
But, in this light, it’s possible to build better visual displays that correspond to music. Knowing that music is treated by your brain as the evocative movements of a human, the visualizations should explicitly take that into account.
For example, one can build software that, for any piece of music, automatically translates it into a visualization of the associated human movement, viewed from the listener’s vantage point. A large variety of such visualizations can be built, and because they are capturing the right visualization for the music, the artistic effect on the viewer/listener should be much more profound than existing visualizations which use fairly arbitrary, not evolutionarily grounded, visual-auditory mappings.