I haven’t been as good about keeping up with multimedia as I once was, so I apologize if this has been done before, but I really enjoyed this soundslides by Michael Morain who works here at the Des Moines Register. I thought it was simple but effective and enjoyable (probably more so if I could read music).
Des Moines native Linda Robbins Coleman compared part of her “Journeys” to the sounds of “a peg-legged pirate who happens upon some kind of Spanish festival.” Listen to the excerpt she described – and follow along with a simplified version of the printed score. (Or hear the real thing at the Des Moines Community Orchestra concert on Sunday.)
http://www.dmjuice.com/assets/mpg/Journeys2/soundslider.swf?size=1
Music is great, but to be honest…. repetition of the same thing…the most unexciting to look at…
I would go for panning horizontally along the scores, fast…slow… following the rythem/note…do some zoom…. anything.
picture of the actual page, maybe, with some hand written notes on it… .to break the monotony…Anything that show some effort.
I guess I liked the simplicity of it. I would have never thought to use soundslides for music in this way.
I could see panning along with the notes maybe using avid or fcp.
Maybe I was just attracted to the piece because I just finished watching a Japanese drama that centered around an orchestra.