Title
MixMash: A Visualisation System for Musical Mashup Creation
Abstract
We present MixMash, an interactive tool to assist users in the creation of music mashups based on cross-modal associations between musical content analysis and information visualisation. Our point of departure is a harmonic mixing method for musical mashups by Bernardes et al. [1]. To surpass design limitations identified in the previous method, we propose a new interactive visualisation of multidimensional musical attributes-hierarchical harmonic compatibility, onset density, spectral region, and timbral similarity-extracted from a large collection of audio tracks. All tracks are represented as nodes whose distances and edge connections indicate their harmonic compatibility as a result of a force-directed graph. In addition, we provide a visual language that aims to enhance the tool usability and foster creative endeavour in the search for meaningful music mixes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/iV.2018.00088
2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Music Mashup,Harmonic Mixing,Perceptual Relatedness,Information Visualisation,Force-Directed Layout,Cross-modal Associations
Mashup,Visual language,Information visualization,Visualization,Computer science,Musical,Usability,Harmonic,Human–computer interaction,Interactive visualization
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-6037
978-1-5386-7203-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Catarina Maçãs145.82
Ana Rodrigues223.10
Gilberto Bernardes300.34
Penousal Machado4886127.17