This article describes the design and implementation of MidiVisualiser, a
virtual environment which provides an interactive visualisation of MIDI
music data. Section 1 explores music visualisation in general and examines
the role of computers and virtual environments. Section 2 briefly surveys
existing music visualisation research and places MidiVisualiser in
context. Section 3 examines various techniques of visualisation and
discusses composite dimensions and ‘Benediktine cyberspace’,
including a description of how visualisation techniques derived from them were
used in MidiVisualiser to overcome some of the difficulties associated with
representing large numbers of data attributes simultaneously. Sections 4 and
5 contain an overview of the implementation and evaluation of MidiVisualiser,
while section 6 discusses future work and conclusions.