Off-the-Shelf Animations and their Musical Visualization Uses

Data visualization libraries such as D3.js are backed up by huge collections of animation examples. Though many derive from projects relating to publicly available statistical data, they often lend themselves well to repurposing in music visualisation. Though there are many more, here a few simple examples to fire your imagination.

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I use the term 'off the shelf' loosely. Meant are those animations which with on the whole only minor changes can be reused within our music visualization framework. The largest modifications relate to consistent, layered reconfiguration according to user's needs.

These might reflect changes in the underlying music system, in pitch standards adopted, in the musical configuration of an instrument or tool (number of channels, tunings etc), and to behaviours associated with the data received from scores during playback.

This may sound daunting, but many of these behaviours are shared with other music animations, and hence can simply be reused across many online or remote (distance or P2P) music learning scenarios.

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Music Visualization

Music Source (Could Just As Well Be Sound) + Data Visualization = Music Visualisation. The rest is just pure imagination. No limits, really.

Off the Shelf Visualizations?

	Chord Diagrams	o Connections between Communities o Friends, Bands, Events Mappings etc o Temperament, Intonation Comparisons o Colour Scale Mappings
Tree Diagrams (Dendrograms)	o Classification systems o Menu Population o Instruments and Tools
	Heat Map	o Finger- and Keyboard Layouts o Modal Scales
Geo/Map Projections	o Event Locations o Instrument Builders
	Circular Heat Chart	Rhythm Breakdowns, including Polyrhythms
Radar Plot	Joint Instrument Model - Theory Tool Configuration
	3D Scatter lot	Modal Landscapes across Multiple Cultures
3D Spirals	o Octave Stack o Note Positions o Chord Planes
	Scatterplot Matrices	o Chord Diagrams o Modal Spectra
Hexagonal Binning	Chromatic Accordion Keyboards
	Hierarchical Layout with Orthogonal Edge Routing	Genre Development History (Orientation Top-to-Bottom)

As an aid (once this thing goes live) to contributing own online music teaching animations, the Financial Times has published a useful glossary of data visualization vocabulary here. All these are at your disposal in the form of implemented examples somewhere out there in the internet.

FT Data Visualisation Vocabulary

All this at your fingertips, and we haven't even considered custom visualizations...

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Keywords

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online music learning, online music lessons	distance music learning, distance music lessons	remote music lessons, remote music learning
p2p music lessons, p2p music learning	music visualisation music visualization	musical instrument models interactive music instrument models
music theory tools musical theory	p2p music interworking p2p musical interworking	comparative musicology ethnomusicology
world music international music	folk music traditional music	P2P musical interworking, Peer-to-peer musical interworking
WebGL, Web3D, WebVR, WebAR	Virtual Reality, Augmented or Mixed Reality	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Scalar Vector Graphics, SVG	3D Cascading Style Sheets, CSS3D	X3Dom, XML3D