Visualizing Musical Structure and Rhythm via Self-Similarity
Jonathan T. Foote, Matthew L. Cooper · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2001
This paper presents a novel approach to visualizing the time structure of musical waveforms.The acoustic similarity between any two instants of an audio recording is displayed in a static 2D representation, which makes structural and rhythmic characteristics visible.Unlike practically all prior work, this method characterizes self-similarity rather than specific audio attributes such as pitch or spectral features.Examples are presented for classical and popular music.