From Music To Graphics

Information visualization of music is one of the issues that to be studiedcontinually, people never stopped exploring the appropriate visual image of themusic. From the beginning of the propagation of music, it has a specific visualimage, for example,"Newholm spectrum" of middle ages in Europe, the pentatonicscale of do, re, mi, sol, la in ancient China, are examples of music visualization inearlier, till the emergence of the stave, sound have a unified visual image-symbolic musical. On this basis, the musicians tried to change the laws of visualsymbols for derivative music, strengthen the relationship between the graphic andthe information of music. Today, music can be expressed by more rational andprecise way with audio. Both of them reach a high degree of unity.To the graphic design of today, the information visualization of music alsomostly based on Synesthesia. The existence of “audio-visual synesthesia” is themost intuitive reason that people can make music visualization, but it is vague andcan not explain in words, even sometimes get from experience. In today’s socialcontext, people pursue the development of balance in nature, technology and art.Nature is the inspiration of design, it provides a steady stream of fresh blood forthe Art, rational technology is a way to achieve the inspiration of design, andprovides new possibilities for design. Music is not just the art of sound. Peoplegive music visual form when it was written down and spread， in turn, it deepenedthe understanding of art works for us.From synesthesia to audio presentation, music was restitute more accurateand truthful by sight. Author tried to get the inherent and rationality contactbetween music and graphic from information of music， combined with thecutting-edge visual manifestations of visualization, to explore how music becomevisual image, further explore the universal law of people’s aesthetic, get the new graphic language at last.