Clavilux 2000 – Interactive instrument for generative music visualization from Jonas Heuer on Vimeo.
Think of playing musical notes for a moment, or close your eyes while fingering a piano keyboard. Odds are, some visual – however abstract – pops into your mind. Visualizing musical notes is second nature in the digital realm, once a note and an image can each be represented with numbers.
I love this! As simple as it is great. Things like this will become more common as the programming involved becomes more familiar. I’ve got a lame recreation of this working with max, but it’s not nearly as cool as this.
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