visualizing-musical-structure-and-rhythm-via-self-similarity
This paper presents a novel approach to visualiz- ing the time structure of musical waveforms. The acoustic similarity between any two instants of an audio recording is displayed in a static 2D repre- sentation, 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.