C@t Project
Nicholas Socha

Music Visualization

• Traditional music visualization analyze the current piece of music in real time
• My project is concerned with creating an offline version which analyzes the entire piece of music extracting data and then creating the visualization accordingling
• This approach create a more responsive visualization
• The intensity of the music overtime can be addressed
• Quick beat changes can drive a drastic change in  the visualization

Audio

• The entire music track will be analyzed to extract information such as beat and intensity that will drive the visualization
• This mapping will be extracted using MatLab, a scientific computing platform
• MatLab has the ability to conveniently manipulate audio data generated from a FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation)
• A FFT deconstructs an audio signal into its constituent frequency

Visual

• 3D graphics will be used to visualize the music
• The extracted mapped music features will be converted to a script format that the animation program Maya can understand
• Animations will then be created in Maya that will be key framed by the script
• Simple example of an animation would be a ball bouncing to the beat of the music while its color or size reflects the current intensity