List of Physical Visualizations
and Related Artifacts
With tag “music”

1960 – 3D Spectrogram

The object on the left may be one of the first sound sculptures. It appears in a 1960 book by German acoustician and musicologist Fritz Winckel (click on the middle image to see the full page). It is a physical 3D spectrogram showing a frequency analysis of an 8-second recording of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. The left axis is frequency, the bottom/right axis is time, and the vertical […]

Added by Pierre Dragicevic, sent by Jill Hubley. Category: Passive physical visualization. Tags: , , , ,
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2014 – Sphere Packing: Visualize Composers’ Total Musical Production

"Sphere Packing" is a series of 3D-printed spheres designed to concentrate the entire musical production of a composer in a single dense multi-channel device. The size of each sphere is directly proportional to how prolific the composer was, for example the sphere for Johann Sebastian Bach has 48 cm diameter and holds 1100 loudspeakers playing simultaneously Bach's 1100 different compositions, while the […]

Added by Karine Charbonneau. Category: Uncertain. Tags: , , ,
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