From Musical Score to Graphic Plan
Résumé
This paper presents the latest developments of the SUM tool, aimed at the integration of image and sound. A user library within the PWGL visual programming environment, it allows both image sonification and graphical computer-aided composition. Initially developed for the sonification of graphic urban maps, in which MIDI data is generated from graphics, the SUM process can now be reversed, with MIDI being the generator of the graphics themselves. We present 3 new developments which allow this: the ability to import MIDI into SUM to generate spatio-temporal vector time-paths; the ability to access the temporal structure of these paths through its points; and the ability to draw freehand vector objects and develop an object library. These functions will allow us to generate visual graphics from music, which may form the basis of future works of ‘visual music’ as well as the musical-generation of graphical designs.