Post by the Scribe on Feb 16, 2024 11:11:57 GMT
Every Noise at Once
everynoise.com/engenremap.html
@everynoise · glenn mcdonald
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 6,291 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2023-11-19. 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.
Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.
Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists.
Be calmly aware that this may periodically expand, contract or combust.
How We Understand Music Genres explains how this thing got started.
A Retromatic History of Music (or Love) follows these genres across years.
Spotify New Releases by Genre uses them to scour this week's new releases.
We Built This City On follows them to their cities of origin.
Genres by Country breaks them down by strength of association with countries.
Songs From the Edges flings you through a blast-tour of the most passionate genrecults.
Songs From the Ages samples demographic groups.
Songs From the Streets samples cities.
Collidescope makes global metagenre samplers.
Drunkard's Rock wanders around randomly for a really long time.
The Canonical Path lets you wander around non-randomly for a really long time.
The Sounds of Places plots countries as if they were genres.
(Not) Every Label at Once attempts to plot some record labels the same way.
Spotify World Browser shows Spotify editorial programming in different countries.
Every Place at Once is an index of the distinctive listening of individual cities.
Hyperspace House Concerts looks for music playing only in particular places.
Every School at Once is an index of the distinctive listening of students by school.
Genres in Their Own Words maps genres to words found in their song titles.
The Needle tries to find songs surging towards the edges of one obscurity or another.
2023 Around the World surrounds and inhabits the year in music even before it ends.
The Approaching Worms of Christmas tries to wrap itself around things I usually fight.
The Aqueduct of Youth brings you kids' music so you can listen young.
Every Demographic at Once further explores listening by country, age and gender.
And there's a dynamically-generated daily summary of Spotify Listening Patterns by Gender.
Or some other automatic lists.
Or you can do your own research.
You can also scan genres and many other things with Discover Quickly.
everynoise.com/engenremap.html
@everynoise · glenn mcdonald
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 6,291 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2023-11-19. 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.
Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.
Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists.
Be calmly aware that this may periodically expand, contract or combust.
How We Understand Music Genres explains how this thing got started.
A Retromatic History of Music (or Love) follows these genres across years.
Spotify New Releases by Genre uses them to scour this week's new releases.
We Built This City On follows them to their cities of origin.
Genres by Country breaks them down by strength of association with countries.
Songs From the Edges flings you through a blast-tour of the most passionate genrecults.
Songs From the Ages samples demographic groups.
Songs From the Streets samples cities.
Collidescope makes global metagenre samplers.
Drunkard's Rock wanders around randomly for a really long time.
The Canonical Path lets you wander around non-randomly for a really long time.
The Sounds of Places plots countries as if they were genres.
(Not) Every Label at Once attempts to plot some record labels the same way.
Spotify World Browser shows Spotify editorial programming in different countries.
Every Place at Once is an index of the distinctive listening of individual cities.
Hyperspace House Concerts looks for music playing only in particular places.
Every School at Once is an index of the distinctive listening of students by school.
Genres in Their Own Words maps genres to words found in their song titles.
The Needle tries to find songs surging towards the edges of one obscurity or another.
2023 Around the World surrounds and inhabits the year in music even before it ends.
The Approaching Worms of Christmas tries to wrap itself around things I usually fight.
The Aqueduct of Youth brings you kids' music so you can listen young.
Every Demographic at Once further explores listening by country, age and gender.
And there's a dynamically-generated daily summary of Spotify Listening Patterns by Gender.
Or some other automatic lists.
Or you can do your own research.
You can also scan genres and many other things with Discover Quickly.