A Preliminary Model for the Design of Music Visualizations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a preliminary conceptual model for designing music visualizations, based on visualization stimulus and data property, to aid understanding and creation of visual representations of music data.

Contribution

It proposes a novel model for music visualization design using two conceptual pivots, enhancing the framework for creating and analyzing visualizations.

Findings

Model effectively deconstructs existing visualizations

Facilitates design of new music visualizations

Provides a foundation for future research and application

Abstract

Music Visualization is basically the transformation of data from the aural to the visual space. There are a variety of music visualizations, across applications, present on the web. Models of Visualization include conceptual frameworks helpful for designing, understanding and making sense of visualizations. In this paper, we propose a preliminary model for Music Visualization. We build the model by using two conceptual pivots, Visualization Stimulus and Data Property. To demonstrate the utility of the model we deconstruct and design visualizations with toy examples using the model and finally conclude by proposing further applications of and future work on our proposed model.