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I prefer the entrancing visualization done by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgXUFnfKIY (his YouTube channel has much more). As a semi-trained musicians, I do see value in showing the full score, but purely as an audiovisual experience I think removing some of that information and just using colors for instruments and y-axis for relative pitch is more mesmerizing.



In music sequencer a.k.a. DAW software (Logic, SONAR, Cubase, etc.) this is usually called "piano roll" notation. Because it's essentially a player piano roll -- you know, the original lossy compression. ;)

Such software usually offer 3 views of the same underlying music data: piano roll, staff/sheet notation, and an event list.




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