Composer, pianist and software engineer Stephen Malinowski has created one brilliant solution to an age-old problem: how to communicate and understand what’s going on in a piece of music, particularly if you don’t know standard musical notation. Over the course of some forty years, he’s honed what he calls his “Music Animation Machine” from a 20-foot printed scroll to the software and iPad apps he’s created — but the results are art. [cont.]
Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR