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Music as a graph
It sounds like an idea I would like to test out once I get more into sound. I want to formalize it.
Written sheet music can be looked at the same way, pretty much. I suppose one could create a program/app that could import drawings and turn them into music. I don't know how listenable the end result would be. You could also look at the drawing and create music that follows the lines, could produce some interesting results. Seems like kind of a novelty to me, but I suppose the right person could turn the concept into something useful.
Neither piano roll nor MIDI seem to reflect the slopes of the sounds though.
This reminds me of Brian Eno's album 'Music for Airports'. This is quite an interesting article on how it was made, and if you scroll down there are some diagrams for the music which are weirdly similar to your own.
http://www.trustmeimascientist.com/2014/03/03/brian-eno-ambient-1-music-for-airports/
It almost looks like an LFO graph.
I think some people already did that, I am pretty sure I heard about this kind of things already but I don't remember who did it sorry.