Archive for category visualization
Sync/Lost
Posted by Paul in fun, java, Music, visualization on February 11, 2010
This looks like it’d be fun to play with:
Echo Nest analysis and visualization for Dopplereffekt – Scientist
Posted by Paul in fun, remix, The Echo Nest, visualization on December 20, 2009
Visualizing the Artist Space
Posted by Paul in events, research, The Echo Nest, visualization on November 26, 2009
Take a look at Kurt’s weekend hack to make a visualization of the Echo Nest artist similarity space. Very nice. Can’t wait for Kurt to make it interactive and show artist info. Neat!
My Fame goes to 11
Posted by Paul in code, fun, java, Music, The Echo Nest, visualization on November 12, 2009
Sten has released a new version of the ultra-cool, award-winning Music Explorer FX. It has a new feature: The Fame Knob. While you are exploring for music you can set the Fame Knob up or down to control how well known or obscure the artists shown are. If you are looking for mainstream artists set the Fame Knob to high. Looking for new, undiscovered artists? Set the Fame Knob to low.
Sten has also included a number of performance enhancements so everything runs super snappy. Read more about the update on Sten’s blog and give it a whirl.
The Music Explorer FX. Click to launch the app.
Using Visualizations for Music Discovery
Posted by Paul in code, data, events, fun, Music, music information retrieval, research, The Echo Nest, visualization on October 22, 2009
On Monday, Justin and I will present our magnum opus – a three-hour long tutorial entitled: Using Visualizations for Music Discovery. In this talk we look the various techniques that can be used for visualization of music. We include a survey of the many existing visualizations of music, as well as talk about techniques and algorithms for creating visualizations. My hope is that this talk will be inspirational as well as educational spawning new music discovery visualizations. I’ve uploaded a PDF of our slide deck to slideshare. It’s a big deck, filled with examples, but note that large as it is, the PDF isn’t the whole talk. The tutorial will include many demonstrations and videos of visualizations that just are not practical to include in a PDF. If you have the chance, be sure to check out the tutorial at ISMIR in Kobe on the 26th.
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.
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
Draw a picture of your musical taste
Tristan F's Musical taste
Tristan F from the BBC posted this hand drawing of his musical taste to Flickr. As he says in the photo comments: I had to stop at some point so it’s not comprehensive. But it’s all about connections.
I find these types of drawings to yield really interesting insights into the listener and to music in general. For instance Tristan has a line connecting Sufjan Stevens to Bill Frisell. I’m still pondering that connection. As I prepare for my upcoming ISMIR tutorial on Using Visualizations for Discovering Music, I’d like to collect a few more personal visualizations of music taste. If you feel so inclined , draw a picture that represents your music taste, post it to Flickr and tag it with ‘MyMusicTaste’. I’ll post a follow up … and particularly interesting ones will appear in the tutorial.
Finding music with pictures
Posted by Paul in Music, music information retrieval, research, visualization on September 7, 2009
As part of the collateral information for our upcoming ISMIR tutorial (Using Visualizations for Music Discovery), Justin and I have created a new blog: Visualizing Music. This blog, inspired by our favorite InfoVis blogs like Information Aesthetics and Visual Complexity, will be be a place where we catalog and critique visualizations that help people explore and understand music.
There are hundreds of music visualizations out there – so it may take us a little while to get them all cataloged, but we’ve already added some of our favorites. Help us fill out the whole catalog by sending us links to interesting music visualizations.
Check out the new blog: Visualizing Music
Music Machinery 