Notes.Art Studio

03/28/2017

My first music video; check it out! https://youtu.be/rUFYnbZANGg

An algorithmic visualization of "Cut Trance" by Kevin MacLeod. The method relies on MATLAB, FFTs, graph theory, and force-directed graph layout methods, and ...

03/21/2017

http://m.thebatt.com/science-technology/seeing-sound/article_5daf2388-0dec-11e7-a335-23a16424fd8f.html?mode=jqm

Sparse matrix algorithms are behind many of the everyday tools used by people around the world. They are used in Google Street View, Google Earth, engineering simulations, financial markets and power systems. Tim Davis, A&M professor in computer science and engineering and a renowned expert in spars...

02/04/2017

An article on the artwork in the Texas A&M College of Engineering Newsletter: http://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2017/01/31/seeing-songs

When you think of art, mathematical algorithms may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Dr. Tim Davis set out to show the world that mathematics can, in fact, be beautiful. He is merging the two disciplines by crafting algorithms that convert songs into something you can actually see.

09/12/2014

A new business card for NotesArt Studio. I'm printing them with MOO dot com ( http://www.moo.com/share/pkxxjs ). The first image is 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' and the back of the card is from 'Sincere'. The latter I did for the LEAF 2013 electronic arts festival.

08/12/2014

Data Visualisation.

07/18/2014

Blog author John Chawner, who writes about computational fluid dynamics, wrote an article on this art ('Music to Mesh via Math) at http://blog.pointwise.com/2014/07/18/this-week-in-cfd-164/

When Texas A&M’s Prof. Tim Davis isn’t developing algorithms and programs used in MATLAB and Google Street View he develops algorithms involving force-directed graph visualization and other technologies to convert sound into sight.

03/26/2014

Cleve Moler's blog on my algorithmic art, translating music into visual art via a mathematical algorithm written in MATLAB. Cleve is a long time friend and the inventor of MATLAB. The art that The MathWorks used in the preview below is my rendering of Toccata and Fugue in D by Bach.

Cleve Moler is the author of the first MATLAB, one of the founders of MathWorks, and is currently Chief Mathematician at the company. He is the author of two books about MATLAB that are available online. He writes here about MATLAB, scientific computing and interesting mathematics.

03/11/2014

This SIAM blog tells the backstory of how I came to create this art.

Tim Davis (University of Florida) writes: Last November, sparse matrices came together with electronic music to appear on billboards around London. What do sparse matrices have in common with the e...

01/17/2014

Gotcha! (http://notesartstudio.com/dr-who.html): A Dalek hiding inside the theme from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. I didn't create this Dalek. It came from my simple rules-based mathematical translation of the Dr Who theme song, which converts a song into visual art. A Dalek?! Who knew?

01/05/2014

Just posted my algorithmic visualizations of song by Kevin Macleod ('Cut Trance') http://notesartstudio.com/cut-trance.html . You can listen to the song on my page, too.

12/29/2013

Just sent off my algorithmic visualization of 'Morning Has Broken' by Cat Stevens, for printing on canvas. Iain & Di Duff had this song played for their wedding. I really love the Celtic trinity symbol that came out of the song. I don't specify any design for the music in any of my visualizations. Instead, I create the mathematical rules that translate the music into the visual art, and I'm often wonderfully surprised by what comes out.