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Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

svantana wrote: post #46
samatman wrote: post #26

This means I have to pitch Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. https://music.ishkur.com Recently updated, it's a comprehensive history and map of electronic music. It's been around since 2000, played a big role in my life. Highly recommended.

It's interesting that the newest genre on there is trap from 2010. I'm trying to think of newer styles, the only one I can come up with is the so-called "hyperpop" by PC Music, Sophie and 100 gecs. But that's been around since 2012 or so. I'm guessing it's a combination of factors: 1) Playlist culture negates the need for a clear taxonomy of music 2) It takes a few years of hindsight to recognize what is a real genre…

> 3) Electronic music is "done": most interesting permutations of notes, rhythms and timbres have been tried already

hold my beer

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

svantana wrote: post #47
Nition wrote: post #45

Does anyone know how Spotify assigns the genre tags to artists? Looking up myself on this site shows me as under two main tags: "Folk Rock Italiano" and "SLC Indie" (which is apparently Salt Lake City). Although folk rock and indie are accurate, I'm neither Italian nor American.

For various reasons they are secretive about this, but the genre system is inherited from EchoNest which they acquired in 2014. EchoNest's main idea was to combine audio analysis with natural language processing and web scraping to categorize music. In fact the two founders were PhD's in each respective field. But nowadays I'm guessing they are utilizing their huge dataset of playlists to group artists under tags. Ob…

I wonder / kinda hope that they have a bunch of music experts working for them that manually categorize and tag music, at least to kickstart their algorithms.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by frereubu »

This is fantastic fun. But a few things that could make it better in my opinion:

1. I think the short description of what this is, but more importantly how to use it, should be at the top. Sometimes discovering how something works is fun, but I found it annoying in this case - discovering the music is the fun bit.

2. I hate that it scrolls what I've clicked to the vertical centre of the screen. It means I can't click around an area without it constantly changing the scroll position and me having to readjust because what I was going to click on next has moved.

3. I think this could be annoying if on by default, but I'd like the back button to take me back to what I'd played before. Perhaps this could be behind an option, off by default, otherwise people might unexpectedly get caught in one of those long back-back-back browser history states.

4. When a sample is playing, clicking on white space should stop what's playing, as should pressing the escape key.

Also, something not in the instructions is that if you're playing a sample you can hover over the >> icon to see what's actually playing.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by the_only_law »

teraflop wrote: post #22

This is awesome. I can't help but feel that "bemani" is badly misclassified compared to its immediate neighbors, though.

I was disappointed at most of the sludge genres not sounding much like sludge (dark sludge sounding closest to something I might hear in the genre but still not quite). Actually my username here is a sludge song :), albeit from an album with other influences.

If this data is form Spotify which seems to be the case, I’ve noticed genre classification isn’t always perfect though.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by skrebbel »

samatman wrote: post #26

This means I have to pitch Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. https://music.ishkur.com Recently updated, it's a comprehensive history and map of electronic music. It's been around since 2000, played a big role in my life. Highly recommended.

Seconded! I particularly recommend reading through some of the genre descriptions (click the (i) icon after selecting a song). They're all beautifully written and many are delightfully opinionated.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by input_sh »

svantana wrote: post #46
samatman wrote: post #26

This means I have to pitch Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. https://music.ishkur.com Recently updated, it's a comprehensive history and map of electronic music. It's been around since 2000, played a big role in my life. Highly recommended.

It's interesting that the newest genre on there is trap from 2010. I'm trying to think of newer styles, the only one I can come up with is the so-called "hyperpop" by PC Music, Sophie and 100 gecs. But that's been around since 2012 or so. I'm guessing it's a combination of factors: 1) Playlist culture negates the need for a clear taxonomy of music 2) It takes a few years of hindsight to recognize what is a real genre…

> I'm trying to think of newer styles

Future bass (Illenium, Mura Masa), bass house (Habstrakt, Jauz, Matroda), g-house isn't new, but it recently became popular (Malaa, Bijou, Dr. Fresch), future house (Oliver Heldens, Martin Solveig, Don Diablo, Zonderling). Also I could swear Chris Lorenzo's and Chris Lake's songs in recent couple of years (especially under the Anti Up pseudonym) are forming their own thing.

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by asiachick »

input_sh wrote: post #37
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

As usual Spotify's lists are utter crap

The first 2 songs listed under "Trip Hop" are not remotely trip hop

https://everynoise.com/new_releases_by_genre.cgi?genre=trip%...

Re: Every Noise at Once

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Post by lxgr »

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.

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

Same here. It is impressive for what it is, but I was wondering whether I was missing the functionality to overlay or somehow sync up different genres simultaneously while exploring it.

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