# Session Optional: 🎼 as 🌈 📦 ⏱
The past two weeks you learnt about ways of seeing data in space with colors. You can apply this to epidemics, economics, and perhaps surprisingly, even music.
In some way, music is nothing but parallel sequences of sound data in time.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is maybe the most recognized and celebrated music on the planet. The following video by Stephen Malindowski visualizes the performance as colored 🌈 boxes 📦 in time ⏱. (I have waited three weeks for this punch line 😃 )
It's a religious experience when you listen to this with good sound while watching on a large screen.
But music also isn't just "parallel sequences of sound data in time." If you want to learn more about how to listen to the Fifth, the podcast Switched on Pop have a series on what is so special about the Fifth, interviewing the New York Philharmonic Orchestra musicians.
- Movement I: A battle brewing
- Movement II: From struggle to victory
- Movement III: Putting the Classism in Classical Music
- Movement IV: What Beethoven would have wanted
I want more!
The MusAnim youtube channel has hundreds of animated music clips.
What if your favorite music isn't there? Believe it or not, after two years of chem YOU may have the skills to create a static version. If you have some mograph skills you might be able to take this all the way!