Making Pictures of Music:  New Images and Videos of Musical Sound

Xiaowen Cheng    Student, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Email:  chen1098@umn.edu

Gary W. Don    Professor, Dept. of Music and Theatre Arts, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Email:  dongw@uwec.edu

Jarod V. Hart     Student, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Email:  hart.jaro@students.uwlax.edu

James S. Walker   Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Email:  walkerjs@uwec.edu

This website contains material related to a presentation at the 2008 Joint Mathematical Meetings in San Diego, entitled Making Pictures of Music.  We also call our work, New Images and Videos of Musical Sound, an allusion to the classic book, New Images of Musical Sound by Robert Cogan, which pioneered the use of spectrograms for musical analysis.  Our work was partially funded through a National Science Foundation  grant:  the 2007 SUREPAM project.  This is an ongoing project, we plan on adding considerably more material as time goes by.  (If you have any suggestions for improvements, please email them to Jim Walker at walkerjs@uwec.edu .) 

Contents

   Methods of Analysis - Musical Examples

    Synthesis

    Curricular Aspects (Mathematics, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, Physics)

    References