Illinois: Visualizing Music
Senior Project
Music is a powerful, emotional medium that is much more difficult to quantify than, say, financial data or earthquake patterns. This project is an experiment in taking an audio recording of music that is beautiful and personally meaningful to many listeners, deconstructing it from different vantage points, rearranging it, and building it up again into visual interpretations. This project visualizes lyrics, instrumentation, notes, patterns, and word usage. Hopefully these interpretations will provide another way of experiencing this album, although no amount of analysis can adequately represent the visceral response one gets when presented with a compelling piece of music.
Word Usage Circles
Lyric Content
Vocal Album Grid
Instruments
Note Frequency
The
Wavelengths
Exhibition Photos
Map
Illinois By Sufjan Stevens