Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-03
2009-10-13
Warren, David S. (Department: 2832)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C084S601000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07601904
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides apparatus and a method for creating a visual representation of music that conveys the musical form, structure, event surface, orchestration, and sonic framework of the piece being visualized. The representation comprises visual characters/sprites that move in time according to instructions from the metadata synchronized to the actual musical recording. These characters accurately portray the rhythm, pitch, and timbre of the individual elements in the musical surface (individual lines or performers) and have a hierarchy of representation, e.g. thematic elements that are divided into sub-elements (gestures or phrases) that are further divided into individual notes. The visual representation corresponds to the structure of the music as heard, where simultaneous harmonic events are parsed into individual notes which are then tied together into a rhythmic stream of linked events. Two streams of data (the “musical” and the “sonic”) are synchronized to the musical piece to drive the visualization.
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Dreyfuss Richard
Dubois Roger Luke
Kiehl John
Schiff & Hardin LLP
Warren David S.
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