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I don't get it. I mean, I understand what I'm looking at; a word cloud of music genres that is each linked to a sample. That part I got. But when you label your website 'Every Noise at Once'... I kind of expect to hear multiple (perhaps not 'every') noises at the same time.
This seems like a useful tool for discoveling new sounds, but when it comes to finding out what Polish free jazz really sounds like, I wouldn't trust it one bit.
Some of the genre memberships seem odd. Barry McGuire is bubblegum pop? As is Zager & Evans? Roy Orbison? That whole category seems to be a weird mashup of what I'd expect in bubblegum pop plus a random dump of '60s rock.
For artists that appear in more than one genre, it seems to use the same sample clip for all of them, so don't be put off from checking out an artist in a genre you like because the sample doesn't fit.
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 3,294 genres by Spotify as of 2019-07-29. 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. Lots of other cool Spotify-scraping…
Edit: so out of curiosity I looked at the bottom right corner and found "tanci". Odd name. Clicked on it, and it's Chinese spoken word artists. Incidentally I practice Chinese so it's perfect.
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 3,294 genres by Spotify as of 2019-07-29. 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. Lots of other cool Spotify-scraping…
Interesting choice of dimensions... So basically how human and how rhythmically distinct. Edit: so out of curiosity I looked at the bottom right corner and found "tanci". Odd name. Clicked on it, and it's Chinese spoken word artists. Incidentally I practice Chinese so it's perfect.
IIRC, there are 14 dimensions in total, but it’s impossible to represent all of them on a page. So he went for up-down, left-right, clusters, and colors to represent a subset of them.
Source: used to work at Spotify.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not missing arbitrary frequency components; please reread the penultimate paragraph, where I mention them explicitly. As I said there, you can extend my argument about a single frequency to include all multiples of that base frequency, and since you can set the coefficient for each frequency arbitrarily based on your ordering, you can set the fourier coefficients arbitrarily and in so doing recover any waveform y…
You're right, I missed that your sin(x) example was talking only about a single component. However, cherry-picking a different reordering for each frequency component before doing an inverse FFT really isn't the same thing as playing all the sounds simultaneously. Anyway, the thing is, we're not talking about an infinite series. This is a thread about digital audio playback, where both amplitude and phase components…
Filthstep didn't sound anything like what I was expecting. But I didn't really know what to expect. So then I selected some genres for which I could confidently propose an exemplary piece. Ragga jungle: precisely correct. Chicago blues: nailed it. Ragtime: the very archetype. Schranz: maybe that's the intro of a track that eventually meanders into schranz, but the clip on hand is way off. Swedish pop: pretty good. Gl…
Filthstep didn't sound anything like what I was expecting. But I didn't really know what to expect. So then I selected some genres for which I could confidently propose an exemplary piece. Ragga jungle: precisely correct. Chicago blues: nailed it. Ragtime: the very archetype. Schranz: maybe that's the intro of a track that eventually meanders into schranz, but the clip on hand is way off. Swedish pop: pretty good. Gl…
I believe Bury St Edmunds _does_ have an established indie scene... Not sure if it developed it's own sound though?
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/68n44v/the-ill-fated-tale...