Comparative Study of Music Visualization based on CiteSpace at China and the World

Abstract

Music visualization is a visual art form for understanding, analyzing and comparing the internal structure and expressive features of music. It meets the aesthetic demand of the masses in the digital age. This paper reviews the development and research status of the music visualization literature in the past 20 years, comprehensively analyzes the research process and current hotspots of music visualization, and speculates the future development trend. We have used Web of Science (WoS) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) as data sources, used CiteSpace software to compare and analyze the year, country, subject distribution and hot keywords of music visualization literature at China and the world from 2000 to 2020 by the method of Mapping Knowledge Domain. The results show that the research on music visualization at China and other countries is showing an upward trend, and it presents the characteristics of multi-disciplinary integration. Different application scenarios, research methods and development stages lead to different research hotspots between different countries. The shortcomings of Chinese research in this field lies in that the research content needs to be deepened, the interdisciplinary content needs to be integrated, and applications of music visualization needs to be popularized.