The Musical Portrait translates a live performance of a musical composition into a visual narrative by mapping images from an emotional survey to a specific set of notes. Because music is a unique emotional experience for every individual, capturing another's reaction to music is quite difficult. To overcome this obstacle, Musical Portrait uses a deeper understanding of music and how different notes can affect the ear to create a universal system, based on questions designed to trigger emotions. Once an individual answers each of these questions and finds images to represent each of their answers, the images are then MIDI-mapped to the correlating guitar notes based on the perceived "mood" of each note. Finally, the participant's "portrait" is created live based on the choice of song, its tempo, interpretation and arrangement, creating a different outcome each time the portrait is shown.