The shape of my song

What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to literally see the shape of any composition available on the Web.

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The artist Martin Wattenberg is a New York-based digital artist whose work centers on the theme of mapping information.

The mapping is fairly simple. Each arch connects two identical passages. To clarify the connection between the visualization and the song, in this diagram the score is displayed beneath the arches.