The size of the dot indicates the duration of the note, and the color of the dot is different for each instrument. The cover for this edition of Patterns is Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” but my visualizations range from Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Pitch is indicated by the distance from the center of the image, while the time at which the note occurs is given by the angle from the 12 o’clock position. In each image, an individual dot represents a note in the score of a piece of music. When I first tweeted it, it quickly became my most popular tweet at the time, and it allowed me to break away from the short efficient five-bar staff representation of notes, showing notes on the same scale. I finally settled on representing a score as a circle. My aim is to take an existing structure and visualize the raw data in a radically different way to see what we can gain from a new perspective. My work is meant for those who want to connect with stories in a new way, whether that’s a music score, a modern reproduction of a brochure for antique typographical machinery, or a timeline of spacewalk milestones since the dawn of modern space exploration. ![]() The aim was to find a way to represent an entire musical score in a single image-not necessarily as an infographic but something fans of the music would enjoy having on their wall because they’re familiar with the music. ![]() However, I’ve always enjoyed how sheet music looks so I took a shot at visualizing the notes from musical scores, and the result is a series of posters called “Off the Staff.” The beautiful complexity of sheet music begs for experimental notation, and I’m hardly the first, but I wanted to bring my own interpretation to the process. The talent of reading music has always escaped me, which is a little ironic considering I grew up in a musical family.
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