"Every noise at once" : A map of all music!!! by Glenn McDonald

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A exciting and very interesting thing!!!

http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html

"An embedding of the set of genres tracked by EN into the Euclidean plane, and, for each genre, an embedding of bands tagged in that genre" by coder Glenn MacDonald. (http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/every-noise-at-once/)

"Every Noise at Once, controlled by algorithms, is a bubble chart of musical genres. Click on a genre, and you will hear excerpt of music, as well as another bubble chart of associated bands. The site also has a 'scan' mode, in which it cycles endlessly through short clips of assigned musical genres.

There are also roughly-defined axes at play in the site, says its creator. 'Left is more electric and right is more acoustic,' says MacDonald. 'And even more roughly speaking, up is more sonic density or uniformity, down is more sonic spareness or spikiness. The less data, the looser the correlations, so the artist distribution within a genre tends to be necessarily less precisely data-related than the distribution of genres.'"http://journalofmusic.com/radar/every-noise-once

Glenn McDonnald said : "Internally I have a tool that can do XY plots with any of a dozen or so metrics on each axis (and for label scaling/weight). The pair I use for these is a measurement of electric (left) vs acoustic (right) on the X axis, and a harder-to-describe measure of sonic density/uniformity on the Y axis. The adjustments for readability are all on the Y axis, though, so the deviations from the data are bigger as you go down.

On the main map, those metrics are averaged over a few thousand songs for each genre, so there's a fair amount of mass behind them. On the individual genre maps, they're averaged over 20-ish nominally genre-appropriate songs for each artist, so there's more random variation at work." http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/every-noise-at-once/#comment-16291

Jean-Sébastien