Visualising Music - 2

Given a set of musical notes (sheet music or swaras), how can they be visualised?

Stephen Malinowski at musanim has a set of pretty interesting videos. His solution takes the MIDI score for the composition and animates each MIDI channel as a new color. It can be observed that each channel corresponds to a voice in the composition. In each channel, the notes are placed vertically in space corresponding to their pitch (the bar notation).

I always had the greatest difficulty visualizing the textual descriptions by Dr. Hofstadter in his GEB book. Listening to the music didn't quite help me as i couldn't identify each individual note, much less imagining their counterpoint, diminution or augmentation. Now, I feel a little more comfortable.

Here are a few of my favorite videos:

1. Illustration of Bach's Contrapunctus 9 (Art of Fugue) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_GMnQvj6E

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvF8XWr17nw

3. Vivaldi's Four Season's allegro- Winter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqe0GdUpJHs