TimbreScores

Music visualization from SoundSpotter acoustic-lexeme models. Each image renders the timbral structure of a work as a self-similarity score. The Xenakis Metastasis model below is restored from the original archive; the remaining scores are shown as reconstructed tiles where the original high-resolution renders were not preserved.

Klangfarbenmelodie - Anton Webern, Six Pieces Op. 6

I. Langsam

II. Bewegt

III. Massig

IV. Sehr massig

V. Sehr langsam

VI. Langsam

Gesture / Texture - Iannis Xenakis

Metastasis (standard model)

Objets Sonores: Electroacoustic Music - Denis Smalley

Base Metals (2000)

Empty Vessels (1997)

Pentes (1974)

Tides (1984)

Tides - Sea Flight

Minimalism - Steve Reich

Violin Phase (1967)

Octet (1979)

TimbreScores were used in talks and exhibitions to show how acoustic lexemes cluster timbre over time. Standard renders use a 40-state model; transparent-dissimilarity variants use spherical-projection and affine-shear transforms.