LookingOutwards-07

Martin Wattenberg is a co-leader of the People + AI Research initiative at Google. My career has encompassed machine learning, visualization, journalism, and art. Asking a question to himself, “what does music look like?” made him create this art piece. According to him, The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer his paradoxical question. I admire how he related music with this “visualization method called an arc diagram that highlighted repeated sections of music–or of any sequence–with translucent arcs.” It is very interesting to see how arc diagrams shape different thicknesses, sizes, saturation, etc to express diverse kinds of music. Just like every music has its own sequence, all of these art pieces create their own unique components.