Piano music visualized on a logarithmic spiral

Very cool links! Thanks for sharing. These bar-graph visualizations remind me of Gregorian notation for some reason.

Those links are great since really help you to "see" the relativity notes, which is one reason I like to experiment with my music notation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_scores

*Here you can read more about Solitude, that crazy looking graphic at the top of the wiki article: http://at.or.at/hans/solitude/

What's neat about the OP's video is that it shows the "periodicity" of the various octaves.

Back in college (1996 or so -- it was on one of the first PowerPC macs) I put together an animation for a class project that was sort of a combination of the two using Bach's Invention #13.

The view was of traveling down a tunnel of a sort of swirly green fog. Each note was represented by a little yellow or magenta stripe painted on the inside of the tunnel, based on which "part" (i.e. hand) was playing it. The angular position was determined by the pitch (which wrapped around at each octave), and the length of the stripe was determined by the duration of the note. All in all it was a really effective way of visualizing the song.

I wish I would've videotaped it, because the source code is long gone and wouldn't run on modern hardware anyway.

It's too sad the region where Bach (and I!) lived does not produce such outstanding musicians any longer.

Two-dimensional keyboard layouts mostly use regular chord shapes. It makes both theory and playability come a lot more easily - two fingerings per scale and chord, no adjustments for different keys. I own an Axis 49 and while I'll admit it isn't perfect for existing repertoire, it excels in every other respect. If you want to "learn music" this is the fastest way to do it.

My title is probably a little inaccurate. The frequencies decrease logarithmically as you move outward on the spiral.