Experiments In Audio Analysis

I’m a fan of non-standard systems of musical notation—a concept made popular by 20th century composers such as Morton Feldman. I spend a lot of time analyzing audio (wave forms, timbre, pitch, volume, etc.) using tools which represent the sounds visually. This video is a test where I use the result of music analysis to create a non-standard system of musical notation (of sorts), albeit after the fact.

This example uses the entire track of the fourth of five pieces from my album, Parable of the Poison Arrow. If you look carefully (sorry for the small screen), you may notice that sounds occur exactly when the moving line passes over a visual. And if you look very closely, you may be able to figure out whether the high sounds are at the top or the bottom of the image. This was just a fun exercise—I don’t expect you to play along.