Visualizing Beethoven's Opus 111 - First Attempt

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Uploaded by on Dec 16, 2007

This is my first video attempt at using spectrographic techniques to visualize classical music. Here I have used python, numpy, pil, ffmpeg and sox (all open source) to animate a moving Fourier transform of the first couple of minutes of the second movement of Beethoven's last piano sonata.

http://classicalconvert.com/

For information on how this was made see:
http://classicalconvert.com/2008/04/how-to-visualize-music-using-animated-spe...

More about Op. 111:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._32_(Beethoven)

Music from:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Beethoven#Music

Programs used:
Sox - http://sox.sourceforge.net/
Python - http://www.python.org/
PIL - http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
Numpy - http://numpy.scipy.org/
ffmpeg - http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/

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  • That's quite an impressive process you're using to generate this spectrogram display!

  • Hey! That's quite something. Do you know about other such visualization attempts?

    Something really really impressive?

    Mose likely i've seen chopin nocturne op24 animation (and others...).

    But it's not that cool.

  • who's playing for us?

    great choice of music to work with!

  • Nice.

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