Clavilux 2000 Keyboard Makes Music Look As Beautiful As It Sounds

Gizmodo has posted an article on the Clavilux 2000 keyboard. This is a keyboard that visually displays the music that someone is playing. View the video above and take a look at the article for more details. It makes me wish I knew how to play the piano.

The Clavilux is a digital keyboard rigged up to a projector, letting the audience see the music they’re hearing. And it really is the music they’re seeing: each stripe of light corresponds directly to a key that is struck, the individual bands representing the velocity and length of each note played.

The notes are assigned colors, as well, giving a visual overview of the harmony of the piece. Play a note that’s out of key and its color will contrast with the bigger picture.

via Clavilux 2000 Keyboard Makes Music Look As Beautiful As It Sounds – Clavilux2000 – Gizmodo.

This story written by Paul Adams

Paul Adams leads an award-winning, diverse contractor team that runs a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 17 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.