Conventional music notation evolved to serve the needs of composers, performers, and conductors. By contrast, Music Animation Machine (MAM) is a musical score for listeners.<\/p>\n
A musical score without any measures or clefs sounds confusing – until you see it. That\u2019s the idea behind the Music Animation Machine, which sets the work of Bach, Satie, Chopin and other composers to an animated series of colored bars and dots, to visually explain pitch and timing to those who can’t understand conventional music notation. The result is a sort of meditative “Guitar Hero” experience, with each note lighting up as it’s played across a scrolling screen. <\/p>\n