Interactive music visualization for music player using processing

Abstract

Most of the music players are often featured with music visualization that includes patterns such as splashes of colours and animated shapes which move to the rhythm of a song. This paper is presented an interactive theme-based design of music player using Processing. It is featured with interaction of music visualization that based on the music' s low-level features to correlate with the shapes colours, and player control functions, and results emotional-based of the visualization. Visual stimulus is able to enhance the connection between the music and user through visuals, especially when the auditory and visual stimuli are coordinated in a meaningful way. Therefore, we extracted the low-level features like size of sound, beat and frequency spectrum to form a specific visual pattern using shapes like freeform, cylinder and triangles to represent a defined content-the rainy day. Then, colours and player control functions are used to interact with the contents by changing the brightness of the colours to distinguish the different mood of the music. The resulting of music player is an interactive music visualization that integrate the low-level features through the rainy day contents via shapes and colors with real-time animation and player control interactions.