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Steve Reich, Pulses

Steve Reich - "Pulses", visualized with Python and the Echo Nest API

Steve Reich - "Pulses"

Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. The first section, “Pulses” is visualized above using custom Python scripts. Analysis of the music is provided by the Echo Nest API.

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See also, Song Visualizations with Echo Nest.

Mar 27, 2009

Category: Music

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2 Comments

  1. Wow. this is a really nice visualization! Do you have the script available?

  2. [...] credit: The first picture is a visualization of Reich’s Pulses using Echo Nest, taken from a very cool blog, [...]

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