The Music Animation Machine

Recently, while looking around for music to listen to, I stumbled across the YouTube channel of Stephen Malinowski (YouTube user smalin). I wasn’t initially sure about his videos, but now I find them to be incredible visualisations of many pieces of classical music. All of the software used to make his videos was entirely self-written, and they produce incredibly beautiful depictions of the melodic contours of the music. Many of his videos, especially the earliest ones, read like some sort of bar-graph score, with the placement of the bars on a