Theoretical elaboration of music visualization

In the screen media era, music works are appreciated visually

In the traditional sense, music belongs to the ear, and it is the art of experiencing beauty with the sense of hearing. When people appreciate music, they often listen to it on the basis of "audio perception and emotional feeling", "image association and rational perception" and "experience and realization of the beauty of music" and so on. Through the stages of "audio perception and emotional feeling", "image association and rational perception" and "experience and realization of musical beauty", the process of aesthetic experience of musical works from sensibility to rationality is completed. Music is characterized by image thinking. Accompanied by emotions, music visualization becomes reality through imaginative association and the acquisition of images of music, life situations and moods. Therefore, in the 1930s and 1940s, Disney explored the combination of music and traditional animation by virtue of the creative thinking that "you can listen to animation" and "watch classical music", and incorporated this pioneering thinking into the creation of Fantasia in 1940 and Fantasia 2000 in 2000. This pioneering thinking was incorporated into the creation of "Fantasia" in 1940 and "Fantasia 2000" in 2000, further realizing the interpretation of musical emotions through animation and the integration of classical music and animation art. Bringing the aural art of music into a new realm of audio-visual integration, the Fantasia series can be considered a groundbreaking initiative that provides an excellent example of music visualization.

Music visualization can open up new channels for the appreciation of music art, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Automation Science Art Center in the successful creation of a large number of three-dimensional animation works, formally for the new media industrialization in music visualization, 2012 will launch a giant dome film "Butterfly", the film will be a realistic three-dimensional animation technology adhering to the visual interpretation of auditory art creation concepts, the Chinese tradition of scientific and artistic interpretation of the classics in a comprehensive scientific and artistic way. The movie will use realistic 3D animation technology to interpret the traditional Chinese classics in a scientific and artistic way. Carefully selected representative Chinese music, whether it's bright and fast, or low and majestic are powerful to show the love of the ancient and long-lasting. The animators materialize the musical imagery through the form of 3D animation, giving the many musical elements a very clear expressive meaning. With the help of animation performance, it helps the appreciators to deepen their understanding and knowledge of the connotation of the works, and provides the opportunity to sublimate new emotional feelings from the classical music works, which makes the visual perception expand and extend the aesthetic scope of the auditory art, and opens up a brand-new channel for the appreciation of music.

At the same time, music visualization enhances the efficacy of "edutainment". Art education is to stimulate people's interest in knowledge, and to use art and beauty to fit the psychology of people's cognition of things. Therefore, to stimulate children's interest in music and deepen it into a kind of wisdom and ability is one of the main purposes of music education. Pure music listening training has little effect in the stage of stimulating interest, while music visualization of music education transforms intangible notes, melodies and other music theoretical knowledge into pleasing visual images, for example, the storytelling of the seven classical music segments in the 1940 Fantasia not only enhances the interesting nature of the musical work, but also conveys the musical theme, philosophy of life, or positive outlook on existence through a variety of visual elements. In North America, the film is often used to do children's classical music enlightenment, especially the dinosaur section is particularly popular with small audiences, some parents who own the film's audio-visual products will be surprised to find that their children will be humming Stravinsky's music. In recent years, with the continuous development of microelectronics, optoelectronics technology and software technology, visual technology has gained rapid development. For example, the more efficient and accurate motion capture technology in 3D animation has been widely developed and applied, which has spawned a number of stunning picture effects, real and believable virtual character movements, and highly infectious visual works, which combine sound and picture with a variety of music genres, and have achieved a new level of artistry and realism in the visualization of music. For example, the visual music works produced by Animusic use computers to create virtual 3D music scenes with animations of the playing effects of conceptual musical instruments and a variety of high-quality graphics, and their works are based on musical notes, which are used to visualize complex harmonies, melodies and other musical imagery from a shallow to a deep and playful manner.

Music Culture Understood Visually

Visual and auditory senses are the most important channels for human beings to perceive the external world, which are the most natural and common behaviors of human beings, and are irreplaceable for human activities to cognize the world. Through all kinds of audio-visual senses to cognize the external world, "watching" and "listening" are the most natural, most direct and most important means. Eyes are like lenses, ears are like radios, so what human beings come into contact with is a mimetic world with a specific viewing angle and listening dimension after being selected and filtered by the "audio-visual medium". Ancient Greek philosophers believed that vision is connected to reason and hearing is connected to the soul, and that the audiovisual can provide the most objective information for recognizing the object and cognizing the world, and its cognitive characteristics are the most reliable. Human "seeing" and "hearing" are not only natural physiological behavior, but also social behavior, a cultural landscape. This cultural landscape is the meaning created by human communication and interaction with the external world. Culture is a phenomenon of human society, which is accumulated with the development of human history, and has the characteristics of nationality and epoch, and is condensed into spiritual products. In ancient Chinese texts, culture means civilization and indoctrination, the cultivation of both the physical and spiritual aspects of human beings. Raymond Williams, a famous British scholar of cultural studies, believes that culture encompasses both the finest classics of thought and art that possess great traditions and the way of life of human beings as a whole. Therefore, the cultural landscape born from the audiovisual is omnipresent and ubiquitous, and the meaning and value of culture is not only embodied in art and knowledge, but also in the daily behavior of "audiovisual combination".

Music culture, as a major category of culture, also has the connotation of visualization, i.e., music imagery is transformed into visual images, and the perceptual auditory nature of music and the perceptual visual level have gained a higher form of fusion at the level of new media technology, which is in line with the identity and symbolic value of the modern viewers, and the visualization of music has provided the dissemination of music culture with a brand new form of interpretation and a new way of experiencing, which adds a new dimension to the audibility. It increases the viewability on the basis of audibility, and prolongs the artistic expressiveness of music works with a deep fit; music visualization will gradually become a fashion, a kind of fashion culture, penetrating into people's daily life, from the external form of music culture, music visualization pays attention to the movement and composition of music elements and visual elements, the colors and shades, and the scene and emotion; while the combination of acoustics The combination of acoustics and video is mainly the organic integration of sound and light, combined with choreography and directing. The base point of understanding music culture with vision lies in the visual factors, especially the visual and image factors; the core lies in the cultural trend that the world cultural scene tends to be visualized; the fulcrum lies in the technological power of visual culture, the development and progress of the contemporary new media technology and visualization technology; and the landing point lies in the generalization of the contemporary consumer society. The rapid development of mass media has given rise to the arrival of the age of map reading, and the general trend of visualization implies a paradigm shift in thinking and in the way of reading and interpreting the world. The popularity of audio-visual combination media such as information technology and multimedia technology provides conditions for the development of music visualization. Music visualization is the depth of visualization elements in music creation, interpretation and experience, which will be able to detach from the music performance itself, and interpret music according to the connotation of the music and the imagination of the creator. In the words of Wittgenstein, "The image captures us, and we cannot escape it." In the future, the visualization of musical culture will become an important tool in the mainstream way of grasping the beauty of music.

Musical information is communicated visually

Sound and image, hearing and sight, both **** the same agreement on aesthetic tendency in contemporary society, dominating the aesthetic form of popular culture. Visual provides many conveniences for the musical works and music culture that people see and understand, and people will rely more and more on reading pictures, so it can be said that visualization will reshape our lifestyle that has been transformed by print culture. At the same time, visual culture provides underlying ideologies and specific worldviews while viewing in a way that people are not easily aware of. While the art of music itself does not rely on the visual, it does rely on music visualization as a trend in understanding music culture. Visualization has also led to significant changes in the way people perceive music. In the past, music was understood as complex and harmonious mathematical proportions; now it is understood as wonderful and profound spiritual rhythms; in the future, music will be understood as rhythmic images as visualization has become a representation of the world. Marx once said, "The most beautiful music means nothing to a pair of ears that do not recognize rhythm", however, with the arrival of the era of music visualization, the appreciation of the most beautiful music does not have to rely entirely on the ears. The development trend of music visualization shows that there is unlimited development space for the interaction between vision and hearing in the future. In the process of modern scientific and technological development, the fusion of human vision, hearing, touch and other senses will reveal the extremely complex expression of the human spirit in the art of listening in a relatively complete figuration, in order to interpret and experience human emotions in a complete and authentic way.

It is foreseeable that the specific applications of music visualization are very wide, such as live performances, exhibitions, and other places to install music visualization systems, combined with special images and customized immersive content development works, which can give people a strong visual impact; with the help of visual scores and conceptual musical instruments can be designed to play dance moves and virtual performances; through virtual reality technology to achieve music Image of the interactive display, the user can through the music interface, human-computer interface to control the virtual characters, virtual scenes and augmented reality storyline to entertain; music visualization system with the help of computer programming and projection technology can be achieved by architectural projection, scene reproduction and other ways to produce color combinations of variations, patterns of variations, etc.; more such as music firecrackers fireworks, music fountains and other public **** art form of expansion of the expression, the former, such as music, music, fireworks, music fountains, etc. Expansion of the expression of the former, such as virtual fireworks with the rhythm of the music, the latter can use different tones, amplitude and beat to control the flow of water, water column changes; more importantly, in music education, music learners can visualize the interactive system and virtual musical instruments for real-time interactive exercises, the process of learning has become interesting, the learning effect of the learning effect of any time to detect, etc.; in the field of professional research, the more music Visualization is also a convenient and practical path for music performance analysis, music pattern analysis, music performance analysis, music cognitive training, music emotion expression, and many other professional categories.