This software contains a set of prototype real-time music visualizations that I developed as part of my undergraduate thesis project in Computer Science at Oberlin College, in 2010.

The purpose of the project was to design and implement an application that helps musicians by providing a source of real-time feedback as they practice, through (hopefully) informative and intuitive visualizations of features such as pitch, loudness, and tone. More information about the project is available here.

A screenshot of the final prototype:

This software requires Java to run. Your computer also needs to have a microphone.

A binary distribution is available here if you don't want to build it yourself. Download the music-visualization-dist.zip file and extract the contents. Inside the folder, run java -jar music-visualization.jar or double-click on the jar file.

A small screen will appear allowing you to choose from among several different visualizations. You may also pause/resume and exit the program from this screen.

A timestamped wav file will be created in the current directory. Once the program is closed, this will contain the audio recorded while the program was running.

If you do want to build the project, you can use ant (just run ant in the cloned repository directory). There is also project information for NetBeans included, though this is optional.

To run the compiled program:

cd dist
java -jar music-visualization.jar

This program utilizes the excellent JTransforms FFT library by Piotr Wendykier.