In the era of screen media, music works are appreciated by vision

In the traditional sense, music belongs to the ear and is the art of experiencing beauty with hearing. When people appreciate music, they often complete the aesthetic experience process from perceptual to rational through the stages of "sound perception and emotional feeling", "image association and rational feeling" and "experience and feeling of musical beauty" on the basis of listening. Music has the characteristics of thinking in images. Accompanied by emotions, music images, life scenes and artistic conception are obtained through imagination and association, and music visualization becomes a reality. Therefore, in 193s and 194s, Disney explored the combination of music and traditional animation with its creative thinking of "listening to animation" and "watching classical music", and incorporated this pioneering thinking into the creation of Fantasia in 194 and Fantasia 2 in 2, further realizing the interpretation of musical emotions by animation and the integration of classical music and animation art.. Bringing music, an auditory art, into a new realm of audio-visual combination, Fantasia series can be said to be a groundbreaking move, which has contributed an excellent example to music visualization.

Music visualization can open up a brand-new channel for appreciating music art. After successfully creating a large number of 3D animation works, Science and Art Center of Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences will officially make efforts in music visualization for the industrialization of new media. In 212, a giant dome film "become a butterfly" will be released, which will comprehensively interpret China traditional classics scientifically and artistically by adhering to the artistic creation concept of visual interpretation and hearing with realistic 3D animation technology. Carefully selected representative China music, whether bright allegro or deep grandeur, is powerfully unfolded to show the everlasting love. Animators concretize musical images in the form of three-dimensional animation, and endow many musical elements with very clear expressive significance. With the help of animation performance, it helps the appreciator to deepen the understanding and knowledge of the connotation of the work, and provides an opportunity to sublimate new emotional feelings from classical music works, which makes visual perception expand and extend the aesthetic category of auditory art and opens a new channel for music appreciation.

At the same time, music visualization enhances the effect of "entertaining". Art education is to stimulate people's interest in knowledge, and to fit people's cognitive psychology with art and beauty. Therefore, it is one of the main purposes of music education to stimulate children's interest in music and deepen it into a kind of wisdom and ability. Pure music listening training has little effect in stimulating interest, while music visual education turns intangible musical theory knowledge such as notes and melodies into pleasing visual images. For example, the story-telling treatment of seven classical pieces of music in Fantasia in 194 not only enhances the interest of music works, but also conveys the theme of music, philosophy of life or positive outlook on existence through various visual elements, cultivating children's sentiment in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. In North America, this film is often used to enlighten children on classical music, especially the dinosaur part is especially popular with small audiences. Some parents who own the audio-visual products of this film will be surprised to find that their children can hum Stravinsky's music. In recent years, with the continuous development of microelectronics, photoelectric technology and software technology, vision technology has made rapid progress. For example, the more efficient and accurate motion capture technology in three-dimensional animation has been widely developed and applied, which has spawned a number of visual works with amazing picture effects, authentic virtual characters' actions and strong appeal, which have been combined with various music types to achieve new heights in the artistic and realistic aspects of music visualization. For example, the visual music works produced by Animusic Company use computers to produce the performance effect animation of conceptual instruments and various high-quality graphic virtual 3D music scenes. Based on notes, the works visually present complex musical images such as harmony and melody in an interesting way.

Music culture uses vision to understand

Vision and hearing are the most important channels for human beings to perceive the outside world, the most natural and common behaviors of human beings, and they are irreplaceable for human beings to recognize the world. Seeing and listening are the most natural, direct and important means to know the outside world through various audio-visual senses. The eyes are like a lens and the ears are like a radio, so what human beings are exposed to is a mimetic world with a specific viewing angle and listening dimension after being selected and filtered by "audio-visual media". Ancient Greek philosophers believed that vision was connected with reason, and hearing was connected with soul. Audio-visual can provide the most objective information to know the object and the world, and its cognitive characteristics are the most reliable. Human's "seeing" and "listening" are not only natural physiological behaviors, but also social behaviors and a cultural landscape. This cultural landscape is the meaning created by the interaction between people and the outside world. Culture is a phenomenon of human society, which is accumulated with the development of human history, has the characteristics of nationality and times, and condenses into a spiritual product. In China's ancient books, the meaning of culture is the cultivation of people's body and spirit. Raymond Henry Williams, a famous British scholar of cultural studies, believes that culture includes not only the best ideas and artistic classics with great traditions, but also the whole way of life of human beings. Therefore, the cultural landscape born from audio-visual is ubiquitous. The significance and value of culture are not only embodied in art and knowledge, but also in the daily behavior of "audio-visual combination".

As a cultural category, music culture also has the connotation of visualization, that is, music images are transformed into visual images, and the perceptual auditory standard and perceptual visual level of music have achieved a higher form of integration at the level of new media technology, which conforms to the identity and symbolic value of modern viewers. Moreover, music visualization provides a brand-new deductive form and experience way for the spread of music culture, which increases the visibility on the basis of audibility and prolongs the artistic expression of music works in a deep way. Music visualization will gradually become a fashion, a fashion culture, which permeates people's daily life. From the external form of music culture, music visualization pays attention to the mutual reflection of music elements and visual elements, colors and tones, scenes and emotions; The combination of acoustics and image is mainly the organic integration of sound and photoelectricity, combined with editing and directing. The basic point of understanding music culture by vision lies in visual factors, especially visual and video factors; The core lies in the cultural trend that the world cultural picture tends to be visual; The fulcrum lies in the technical power of visual culture, the development and progress of contemporary new media technology and visualization technology; The foothold lies in the generalized contemporary consumer society. The rapid development of mass media has given birth to the era of reading pictures, and the general trend of visualization means a change in thinking paradigm and way of reading the world. The popularity of audio-visual media such as information technology and multimedia technology provides conditions for the development of music visualization. Music visualization is the deepening of visual elements in music creation, deduction and experience, which will be able to interpret music according to the connotation of music and the imagination of the creators without music performance itself. In Wittgenstein's words, "the image has captured us, and we can't escape it." In the future, the visualization of music culture will become an important means to grasp the aesthetic feeling of music.

Music information uses vision to spread

sound and image, hearing and vision. In contemporary society, both of them agree with the aesthetic trend and dominate the aesthetic form of popular culture. Vision provides a lot of convenience for people to see and understand music works and music culture, and people will rely more and more on reading pictures. It can be said that visualization will reshape our lifestyle transformed from printing culture. At the same time, visual culture provides a potential ideology and a specific world view while watching in a way that people can't easily perceive. Although music art itself does not rely on vision, it does rely on the trend of understanding music culture. Visualization has also greatly changed people's cognitive style. In the past, music was understood as a complex and harmonious mathematical proportion; Now, music is understood as a wonderful and profound charm; In the future, music will be understood as rhythmic images, because visualization has become a representation of the world. Marx once said, "The most beautiful music is meaningless to a pair of ears that can't distinguish rhythm." However, with the advent of the era of music visualization, you don't have to rely entirely on your ears to appreciate the most beautiful music. The development trend of music visualization shows that vision and hearing have unlimited development space in the future interaction. In the development of modern science and technology, the fusion of human senses such as sight, hearing and touch will show the extremely complex expression of human spirit in the art of hearing with a relatively perfect concrete, so as to fully and truly interpret and experience human emotions.

It is foreseeable that music visualization has a wide range of specific applications, such as the installation of music visualization systems in live performances, exhibitions and other places, and the development of works with special images and customized immersive content, which can give people a strong visual impact; Dance movements and virtual performances can be designed with the help of visual music scores and conceptual musical instruments. Through virtual reality technology, the interactive display of music images can be realized, and users can control virtual characters, virtual scenes and augmented reality storylines through music interface and human-computer interaction interface to entertain; With the help of computer programming and projection technology, the music visualization system can realize the changes of TINT and patterns by means of building projection and scene reproduction. For example, music firecrackers, fireworks, music fountains and other public art forms are expanded. The former is the cooperation between virtual fireworks and music rhythm, and the latter can control the changes of water flow and water column by using different timbre, amplitude and beat. More importantly, in music education, music learners can interact with virtual instruments in real time through the visual interactive system, and the learning process becomes full of fun, and the learning effect can be detected at any time. In the field of professional research, music visualization provides a convenient and practical path for music performance analysis, music form analysis, music performance analysis, music cognitive training, music emotional expression and other professional fields.