Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2001
This article describes the design and implementation of MidiVisualiser, avirtual environment which provides an interactive visualisation of MIDImusic data. Section 1 explores music visualisation in general and examinesthe role of computers and virtual environments. Section 2 briefly surveysexisting music visualisation research and places MidiVisualiser incontext. Section 3 examines various techniques of visualisation anddiscusses composite dimensions and ‘Benediktine cyberspace’,including a description of how visualisation techniques derived from them wereused in MidiVisualiser to overcome some of the difficulties associated withrepresenting large numbers of data attributes simultaneously. Sections 4 and5 contain an overview of the implementation and evaluation of MidiVisualiser,while section 6 discusses future work and conclusions.