Music has an important role to play during this time of stress. We hope you'll have as much fun using Music:Eyes as we had building it.
See what you hear!
Music:Eyes is a new e-learning platform and a transformative way to experience music through visual animations, based on the immense appeal of our co-founder Stephen Malinowski’s Music Animation Machine with over 170 million views on YouTube.
Hear everything, because you see everything. Learn from repertoire instead of textbooks. Develop listening skills and musicianship with integrated lessons, quizzes, and games. Become a music animator and create your own visualizations from scratch!
Create and explore immersive musical worlds
We believe that music is best experienced in a creative way, whether that’s humming, dancing, composing, or ... animating! With Music:Eyes Studio, create unique visual experiences to explore and express what music means to you. And then share your creations with the world!
Testimonials from educators and students
Tested by teachers and teaching artists at leading institutions like Columbia University, International School Luxembourg, and Hull's School Zürich.
This gets students right into the music. Short of learning an instrument, I’ve never seen anything engage them like this
Head of Music at Hull’s School, Zürich
Dr. James Isaacs
It really is overwhelming how much students prefer learning music with your animations.
Music Department Chair, Columbia University
Dr. Susan Boynton
Students learn to grasp complex music cognitively and emotionally, make artistic decisions and enter into fruitful aesthetic conversations.
Juilliard School, El Sistema expert
Eric Booth
I found myself noticing subtleties which have enriched my listening ten-fold...
Music Animation Machine channel
YouTube viewer
This animation literally changed my life when I first found it at the age of 7. It’s the reason I started learning piano, and now I play it every day.
Music Animation Machine channel
YouTube viewer
Interactive lessons, quizzes, and games
Music:Eyes integrated lessons combine guided listening, exploration, creation, plus quizzes and games. Try out these example lessons!
1 Debussy - Clair de Lune
2 Vivaldi - Spring
3 Step-by-step Creator Guide
Find pieces by a dozen composers from Bach to Chopin to Shostakovich. We're adding new pieces and lessons regularly, plus content from more musical genres.
Test your rhythm skills on this tapping game demo with Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata:
(tap 1 for the bassline and 9 for the melody)
Get started with Music:Eyes!
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About Music:Eyes
Music:Eyes is a non-profit Association based in Zürich, Switzerland, co-founded by visual music pioneer Stephen Malinowski, conductor and violinist Etienne Abelin, technologist Lushen Wu, and business developer Jan Fülscher. While Music:Eyes is currently launching with free access to support educators, we greatly appreciate contributions to support our work (via Patreon or PayPal)!
To learn more about our mission and projects, visit our website and follow us on Facebook. We have partnered with major arts and education institutions worldwide, such as:
We developed the Music:Eyes visualization engine with renowned Swedish design company North Kingdom, and thank the following foundations for their generous support:
Avina Foundation •Ernst Göhner Foundation •Max Kohler Foundation •Beisheim Foundation •Emil & Maria Kern Foundation •Marc Rich Foundation
Our growing catalog of animations includes:
Digital performances using virtual instrument audio by Arnaud Derhan.
| Composer | Pieces |
|---|---|
| Missy Mazzoli | Lies You Can Believe In |
| Muzio Clementi | Sonatina (Op. 36 No. 1) - Allegro |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Keyboard Concerto No. 5 (BWV 1056) - Largo |
| François Couperin | Les Barricades Mystérieuses |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Spring from Four Seasons - Allegro |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Allegro Clarinet Concerto - Allegro Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante |
| Fanny Mendelssohn | Sonata in G minor - II. Scherzo |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata ("Moonlight") - Adagio sostenuto |
| Frédéric Chopin | Étude Op. 10, No. 3 ("Tristesse") |
| Gioachino Rossini | William Tell Overture |
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Nutcracker Suite (excerpts): Sugarplum Fairy Arabian Dance Waltz of Flowers |
| Antonín Dvořák | Serenade for Strings - Moderato |
| Gabriel Fauré | Pavane |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | "Carnival of the Animals" - Aquarium |
| Florence Price | Juba Dance from Symphony No. 1 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 - Moderato |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No. 2 - Andante |