Chapter Two Reference David Wessel and members of the research team at Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies design high-tech music systems that give performers and composers new tools with which to create music. Musicians can explore complex sound representations by viewing them from different perspectives such as those illustrated below.
Time increases to the right and frequency increases in the distance.
Below, a more traditional way of displaying the amplitude of a single frequency as it changes with time. The arching lines represent different frequency components of a sound.