This is what Beethoven's "Fur Elise" looks like in our new Object-Oriented Music™ method for musical representation.
Painting Music™ is a generative visual and computational framework for learning, performing, and composing music through embodied symbolic interaction.
Built on a structured, object-based framework, it translates sound into organized visual patterns that reveal how music is constructed.
By mapping musical information into space, it provides a new way to analyze, learn, and interact with music across visual, aural, and spatial domains.

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This is what music looks like when you remember it.
This is a visual composition that reveals the structure of Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” as a single image.
Painting Music™ — translating music into visual structure
1. 🎼 Painting Music™ — Fur Elise
2. 🎼 Painting Music™ — Fur Elise Live Demo
3. 🖼 Painting Music™ — Limited Edition Prints
4. 🖼 Exhibition Limited Edition (ExpoMetro)
5. 🎼 Custom OOM Sketch™

OOM-Beta "Fur Elise", April 25, 2026 Screen Recording 2026-04-25 at 10.33.31 PM
This is an application of "Object-Oriented Music"(TM), a patent-pending new method for translation of musical data into user-composed visual representation, to Beethoven's popular
piano piece "Fur Elise".
Unlike other current methods, "Object Oriented Music"
is designed for human memory and cognition,
and provides a new option for music education and performance.
Painting Music™
Painting Music™ is a structured method for translating musical compositions into visual form.
Using a coordinate-based system, musical elements such as pitch, time, and pattern are mapped into a spatial representation, allowing the full structure of a piece to be seen at once rather than read sequentially.
This approach reveals relationships within the music—repetition, variation, density, and form—that are often difficult to perceive through traditional notation alone.
The result is a visual composition that reflects the underlying structure of the original work, making complex musical patterns more intuitive and accessible.
This method was developed over fifteen years by Amy Lynn Freeman, teacher at Mountain View Piano(TM), her private piano studio in Mountain View, CA.
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My multi-media composition "Fur Elise" by Amy Lynn Freeman will be exhibited in the upcoming Expo Metro Show in Madrid, Jun 19-21, 2026. Purchase Limited Edition Print and Video: http://cm-music-01.symphone.tv/

Another visualization - this time of the last half of the piece. Can you see the patterns now?
Click below for more information on how the "OOM Sketch" was developed
🎼 Custom OOM Sketch™
This is a closed demo for Beta-testers only: Beta-testers please E-mail me for updated link. This test limited to friends, former students and fellow teachers - send me an e-mail for access:) I request your feedback, thoughts and comments!
Check out our Live Demo on Huggingface.co at https://huggingface.co/spaces/virtualharmonics/paintingmusic
Purchase Limited Edition Print and Video: http://cm-music-01.symphone.tv/
Here are some examples of Draw a Song™
Music Education, Recording and Performance: Painting Music™
Join me in exploring my new technology Object-Oriented Music™, designed to sketch musical patterns visually for assistance in learning, memorizing and recalling musical instructions.
Inspired by my students' work in my program Draw a Song™, I have translated some of those ideas into a repeatable process that can be used by students to break down complex pieces into smaller sections and components for memorization, categorization and easier recall.
Here are some examples from students from my studio.