Music Visualisation: Catalysts

Though the original idea came some 15 or more years ago, a number of fairly recent advances, some environmental, some in technology arena, some cultural and political, others conceptual, were decisive in triggering action on the idea of a graphical world music visualization site.

This page catalogues some of the more significant ones.

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Catalysts

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Vibrant Examples Ecosystem The Idea Is Entirely Feasible

Enabling Technologies (Thus Far) SVG (Scalar Vector Graphics) & D3.js

Community Provisioning Clear And Simple

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Recent advances in in-browser, data-driven visualisation libraries combined with a rapidly expanding treasury of liberally-licensed examples have dramatically eased the path to wide scale music visualisation. Indeed, for some time, all that has stood in the way was the lack of an integration framework flexible enough to reflect world music's great diversity. The waiting may soon be over.

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Peek And Ye Shall Find It's All Out There, And It's Free

Crowd Intelligence Stepwise To The Superlative

Learning Approaches Green Light To Music Visualisation

Further catalysts are undoubtably the dramatic move from paper to online music scores in general, but also the broad move from proprietary towards open source music notation, the advance of scanning technologies (paper-bitmap-MusicXML), the adoption of MusicXML as a W3C standard for music exchange, the proliferation of interest in more visually oriented music teaching as apparent from the many excellent YouTube videos, online courses and tools, but also the liberation of cultural curiosity, expressed by recent research in areas such as transnotation.

In themselves, however, these go only part of the way. The next concrete round of musical liberation will be brought about by visualization platforms such as that in focus here.

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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