Mixmash: A visualisation system for musical mashup creation

Authors

Abstract

MixMash is an interactive tool to assist users in the creation of music mashups based on cross-modal associations between musical content analysis and information visualisation. Our point of departure is a harmonic mixing method for musical mashups by Bernardes et al. To surpass design limitations identified in the previous method, we propose a new interactive visualisation of multidimensional musical attributes—hierarchical harmonic compatibility, onset density, spectral region, and timbral similarity—extracted from a large collection of audio tracks. All tracks are represented as nodes whose distances and edge connections indicate their harmonic compatibility as a result of a force-directed graph. In addition, we provide a visual language that aims to enhance the tool usability and foster creative endeavour in the search for meaningful music mixes.

Subject

Information Visualization

Conference

22 International Conference Information Visualisation, July 2018