Finding Music With Pictures: Data Visualisation for Discovery
With so much music available, finding new music that you like can be like finding a needle in a haystack. We need new tools to help us to explore the world of music, tools that can help us separate the wheat from the chaff. In this panel we will look at how visualizations can be used to help people explore the music space and discover new, interesting music that they will like. We will look at a wide range of visualizations, from hand drawn artist maps, to highly interactive, immersive 3D environments. We'll explore a number of different visualization techniques including graphs, trees, maps, timelines and flow diagrams and we'll examine different types of music data that can contribute to a visualization. Using numerous examples drawn from commercial and research systems we'll show how visualizations are being used now to enhance music discovery and we'll demonstrate some new visualization techniques coming out of the labs that we'll find in tomorrow's music discovery applications.
- Another brilliant session hosted by Paul Lamere, the man behind http://musicmachinery.com, a site you get lost in for hours and hours.
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- Paul talked about the different kinds of visualisations, such as hand created, computer generated, interactive etc. You can see some of the sites he demoed below and get more more from the deck of slides he used in his presentation at the bottom of the page.
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music | New Home on Techno.orgThe guide attempts to depict the chronological order of electronic music genres' appearance. It contains 7 separate parent areas of electronic music to explore - House, Techhno, Breakbeat, Jungle, Hardcore, Downtempo, and Trance.
