{"id":1249,"date":"2011-05-19T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/partitura-mesmerizing-music-visualization-software\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T21:58:00","slug":"partitura-mesmerizing-music-visualization-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/partitura-mesmerizing-music-visualization-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Partitura: Mesmerizing Music Visualization Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/brainpickings\/rss\/~3\/Os6KaQRXXEc\/\">Partitura: Mesmerizing Music Visualization Software<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>What neurological phenomena have to do with software and the future of live performance experiences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Music visualization deeply fascinates and inspires me, from how it\u2019s manifested in outlier phenomena like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/22\/how-synesthesia-works\/\">synesthesia<\/a> to how it\u2019s codified in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/06\/notations-21\/\">visual language of music notation<\/a> to how it\u2019s leveraged in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/26\/synesthesia-music-visualization\/\">artistic expression<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quayola.com\/index.php?\/visuals\/partitura\/\"><strong>Partitura<\/strong><\/a> explores this topic from a software standpoint with spellbinding generative real-time graphics that visualize sound. A collaboration between London-based visual artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quayola.com\/\">Quayola<\/a> and music visualization artists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abstractbirds.com\/about\/\">Pedro Mari and Natan Sinigaglia<\/a>, the software churns out endless, mesmerizing, ever-evolving abstract shapes that can respond both the structure of recorded music and manual gestural inputs.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brainpickings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/partitura2.jpg?w=500\" ><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brainpickings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/partitura1.jpg?w=500\" ><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brainpickings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/partitura3.jpg?w=500\" ><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Partitura aims to create a new system for translating sound into visual forms. Inspired by the studies of artists such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren, the images generated by Partitura are based on a precise and coherent system of relationships between various types of geometries.\u201d ~ <strong>Quayola<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quayola.com\/index.php?\/visuals\/partitura\/\"><strong>Partitura<\/strong><\/a> feels like a three-dimensional version of the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/01\/labuat-soy-tu-aire\/\"><em>Soy Tu Aire<\/em><\/a>, equal parts fluid and vibrant, with incredible potential for live performances and multisensory ambient experiences.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/createdigitalmotion.com\/2011\/05\/partitura-spectacular-real-time-visualization-of-music-and-thinking-in-1d\/\">Create Digital Motion<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/artstechnews.com\/\">ArtsTech News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/newsletter\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brainpickings.org\/wp-content\/themes\/BrainPickings\/images\/email.png?w=50\" alt=\"\" >Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/newsletter\/\">say it\u2019s cool<\/a>. 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Music visualization deeply fascinates and inspires me, from how it\u2019s manifested in outlier phenomena like synesthesia to how it\u2019s codified in the visual language of music notation to how it\u2019s leveraged in artistic expression. 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