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Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by StavrosK »

superjan wrote: post #28

This site and the spotify playlists that it makes, has rekindled my interest in music after being dormant for more than a decade. Never expected that computer generated playlists could be good. Highly recommended.

Where do you see the playlists? I only see one at the top.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by meken »

I'm a bit embarrassed to ask, but what does this do?

I assumed by the name it would play a bunch of sounds over each other.

Is it just a catalog of streams of different music genres, arranged in a 2d grid?

If so, that's cool. I just want to make sure I'm not missing some functionality.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by TeMPOraL »

meken wrote: post #32

I'm a bit embarrassed to ask, but what does this do? I assumed by the name it would play a bunch of sounds over each other. Is it just a catalog of streams of different music genres, arranged in a 2d grid? If so, that's cool. I just want to make sure I'm not missing some functionality.

There's a blurb of text at the very bottom that explains what it is (I just found it, it wasn't obvious to me either):

> 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 5,304 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2021-03-30. 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.

EDIT: Artist map is even more interesting, see e.g.: https://everynoise.com/engenremap-russianchoir.html - it has a scatterplot of artists, genre's neighbourhood, and... I'm not sure what that dark one is. I'm guessing the neighbourhood opposite in the "genre space"?

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by jakubp »

StavrosK wrote: post #31
superjan wrote: post #28

This site and the spotify playlists that it makes, has rekindled my interest in music after being dormant for more than a decade. Never expected that computer generated playlists could be good. Highly recommended.

Where do you see the playlists? I only see one at the top.

Click "list" in the top menu https://everynoise.com/everynoise1d.cgi?scope=all

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by IndySun »

For years now this site has been a secret weapon for discovering music and artists hitherto unknown. Classical is often the most surprising. The scan time is too short, as mentioned, so I add new background tabs when I hear a snippet of interest for further investigation. Doing this is an exercise of the mental & physical, and time well spent. How artists and tracks are tagged is not always consistent, but the sheer number of options usually delivers.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by input_sh »

superjan wrote: post #28

This site and the spotify playlists that it makes, has rekindled my interest in music after being dormant for more than a decade. Never expected that computer generated playlists could be good. Highly recommended.

You can also do something with no algorithm what so ever: see every new Spotify release tagged in a genre, updated every Friday: https://everynoise.com/new_releases_by_genre.cgi

Also you can see what's featured on Spotify's homepage for each country: https://everynoise.com/worldbrowser.cgi?country=NL

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by input_sh »

frabcus wrote: post #30

Is there anywhere with a writeup of how this works - how it was generated and the data feeding it was generated? I've seen the description at the bottom of the page, but would like more detail!

Author has a blog over on https://www.furia.com/, I'd suggest spending some time there.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by gala8y »

superjan wrote: post #28

This site and the spotify playlists that it makes, has rekindled my interest in music after being dormant for more than a decade. Never expected that computer generated playlists could be good. Highly recommended.

What new music did you discover and listen to? I listened to a lot of classical music, rock, pop in my youth, then came electronic music and raves. After some relatively music-less years (how come?), few years ago, I came back to electronic music and it blew my mind - psytrance, dark psytrance, goatrance, hi-tech, forest psy to name a few more brain damaging and fun. :)
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