Apollonius diagrams and the Representation of Sounds and Music

The abstract from our paper submitted to ISVD07:

 

We introduce the use of weighted medial graph structures to represent sounds and musical events. Such structures permit the building of hierarchical neighborhood relationships (symmetries) while mapping time to a weight (of a note, or event). This is useful to relate perceptual organisations (groupings in the sense of Gestalt theory) both visually and aurally. We treat time in a cinematographic way, effectively using a space-time representation. The use of colour, modulation (of waveforms), orientation, speed, etc., allows us to integrate multiple musical features in our dynamic diagrams. We provide illustrations, including animations, of our ideas.

You may read the paper (Apollonius_diagrams-2007), and download sourcecode for the software mentioned in the paper here.