MIDIVIS: VISUALIZING MUSIC PIECES STRUCTURE VIA SIMILARITY MATRICES

This paper presents a technique for visualizing symbolically encoded music stored in MIDI files. The method is automatic and enables visualizing an entire opus in a single image. The resulting images unveil the structure of a piece as well as detailed themes’ leading within a piece. The technique proposed in the paper is suitable for many types of music (both classical and popular) and the quality of the visualization highly depends on the quality of input MIDI file. The program for creating visualizations using this technique and previewing them with audio playback is made available for use within the community.