I'll be honest, I'm not really sure if there's a specific way I should be reading this visualization in terms of an x-y axis (which I don't know really exists for music...), so I'm assuming this...
I'll be honest, I'm not really sure if there's a specific way I should be reading this visualization in terms of an x-y axis (which I don't know really exists for music...), so I'm assuming this is basically all relational in terms of distances.
This seems like a fantastic tool though. I'm always searching for new artists and genres, so this is going to be really helpful to me; thanks for sharing, OP!
I think I'm most curious how they populated this entire thing because it's a lot to take in.
There used to be a fantastic online radio/streaming service called Musicovery that did a similar sort of visualization technique but way, way better... it was a proper network graph, navigable by...
There used to be a fantastic online radio/streaming service called Musicovery that did a similar sort of visualization technique but way, way better... it was a proper network graph, navigable by songs relational connections and could even be filtered by genres, time period, mood+tempo and song "danceability":
They are apparently still offering their recommendation and music discovery engine as a commercial service API, but they shut down the streaming side of things ages ago. It was by far my favorite music site for a long time and I discovered an absolute ton of new artists thanks to their incredible system and insanely huge catalogue of music. I really, really miss it. :(
this website is probably familiar to some of you since i don't think it's that niche, but for those of you in the lucky 10,000, this website allows you, through the glorious power of spotify, to...
this website is probably familiar to some of you since i don't think it's that niche, but for those of you in the lucky 10,000, this website allows you, through the glorious power of spotify, to explore all sorts of wacky and wild genres you never knew existed, such as "lovecraftian metal", "grave wave", "space age pop", and something to the tune of 2,900 other genres. pretty neat, especially if you're shopping around for new genres to listen to.
the description of the project, which explains how it's plotted and what a genre's position on the plot means:
Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 2,957 genres by Spotify as of 2019-04-26. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.
there are also some other cool visualizations down the way besides the main one, like the genres by country side-scroller, the every place at once visualization that breaks listening habits down by city, and spotify listening patterns by gender, which is exactly what it says it is, among others.
I'll be honest, I'm not really sure if there's a specific way I should be reading this visualization in terms of an x-y axis (which I don't know really exists for music...), so I'm assuming this is basically all relational in terms of distances.
This seems like a fantastic tool though. I'm always searching for new artists and genres, so this is going to be really helpful to me; thanks for sharing, OP!
I think I'm most curious how they populated this entire thing because it's a lot to take in.
There used to be a fantastic online radio/streaming service called Musicovery that did a similar sort of visualization technique but way, way better... it was a proper network graph, navigable by songs relational connections and could even be filtered by genres, time period, mood+tempo and song "danceability":
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/music-viz-gold-as-pdf-091022082543-phpapp01/95/slide-161-1024.jpg
They are apparently still offering their recommendation and music discovery engine as a commercial service API, but they shut down the streaming side of things ages ago. It was by far my favorite music site for a long time and I discovered an absolute ton of new artists thanks to their incredible system and insanely huge catalogue of music. I really, really miss it. :(
this website is probably familiar to some of you since i don't think it's that niche, but for those of you in the lucky 10,000, this website allows you, through the glorious power of spotify, to explore all sorts of wacky and wild genres you never knew existed, such as "lovecraftian metal", "grave wave", "space age pop", and something to the tune of 2,900 other genres. pretty neat, especially if you're shopping around for new genres to listen to.
the description of the project, which explains how it's plotted and what a genre's position on the plot means:
there are also some other cool visualizations down the way besides the main one, like the genres by country side-scroller, the every place at once visualization that breaks listening habits down by city, and spotify listening patterns by gender, which is exactly what it says it is, among others.