Archive for October, 2009
There must be 85 ways to visualize your music
Posted by Paul in Music, research, visualization on October 2, 2009
Justin and I have been working hard, preparing our tutorial: Using Visualizations for Music Discovery being presented at ISMIR 2009 in Kobe Japan. Here’s a teaser image showing 85 of the visualizations that we’ll be talking about during the tutorial. If you’ve created a music visualization that is useful for music exploration and discovery, and you don’t see a thumbnail of it here, let me know in the next couple of days.
Genre of the week: whalecore
Saw this post by Nackster on the Last.fm brutal death metal forum
whalecore! Oh Yeah! Here is it:
And don’t forget this whalecore classic – really, it started the whole genre:
Top whalecore bands are: Gojira Mastodon
Ahab
Giant Squid
Yep, there’s a Wikipedia page on whalecore. Listen to Whalecore at Last.fm
Radio Waves
Posted by Paul in data, Music, visualization on October 1, 2009
Radio Labs now has a new visualisation called Radio Waves that shows the kind of music that is played on the various BBC stations. The visualization shows info about what genres, artists, year of release, which DJs play which music. There’s lots of info presented in an interesting way. Read all the details at the Radio Labs blog and then check it out: Radio Waves
Music Machinery 