[HN Gopher] Every Noise at Once
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Every Noise at Once
Author : hwayne
Score : 317 points
Date : 2021-04-02 02:06 UTC (20 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (everynoise.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (everynoise.com)
| siltpotato wrote:
| People talk about the tyranny of genre, but I guarantee you none
| of these are granular enough to get the thing that I want if I
| want to hear more Alberti bass lines or I wanted to hear bright
| and shrill square wave leads. If only you could categorize by
| hand-labeled feature. Just list every music theory thing of note,
| from keys and tempi to tapping and bending to instruments used.
| Sadly a bit more involved than mTurk workers (is that still
| around) are usually called to do.
| wunderflix wrote:
| Acid House is missing :(
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house
| anigbrowl wrote:
| No it isn't, search for it - it's just a bit below the trance
| cluster. This is a surprisingly well realized collection.
| apazzolini wrote:
| I'm happy every time I come across this site - it's always a fun
| way to spend some time, and I've found more than a few great
| artists here.
| samatman wrote:
| 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.
| __tom__ wrote:
| I've been looking for this for the past few weeks! Thanks for
| sharing, it played a big role in my life too.
| 8bitsrule wrote:
| Unlike the GIGO genre-names at EN@O, the IGEM genre names are
| chosen by people who know their stuff.
| svantana wrote:
| 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 and not just marketing/hype
|
| 3) Electronic music is "done": most interesting permutations of
| notes, rhythms and timbres have been tried already
| ddek wrote:
| > 3) Electronic music is "done": most interesting
| permutations of notes, rhythms and timbres have been tried
| already
|
| Have you heard last week's release 'Promises' by Floating
| Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the LSO? I haven't heard
| anything like it before (although that might be me), and it
| completely blew me away.
| input_sh wrote:
| > 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.
| svantana wrote:
| Nice, those are all glaring omissions from the chart.
| Although if you trace them back, weren't most of them
| initiated in the early 2010's?
| MattRix wrote:
| Anyone who thinks that electronic music is "done" should
| listen to Iglooghost. Most fresh and unique music I've heard
| in a long time. It sounds like it was made by aliens (while
| still beinhg quite catchy and listenable, IMO).
| ebiester wrote:
| To my ears, Iglooghost sounds like an extension of
| hyperpop. Listen to "Super Ink Burst" after "Immaterial" by
| Sophie.
| ali_m wrote:
| The hyperactive, glossy aesthetic is definitely similar,
| although I'd place Iglooghost closer to hip-hop/grime
| (e.g. "White Gum"). Sophie sounds more like a mutated
| version of chart pop music.
| nkozyra wrote:
| It's not up to date by any measure. There are new electronic
| genres popping up yearly, and usually it's the opposite of
| what you describe. Usually one artist does something new,
| quickly gets labeled and then the copycats start up. It's
| almost a branding exercise. Genres come and go as you say,
| and technically most genres are "hype" as they tend to last
| only briefly. There's nothing unique or new about that.
|
| I don't understand point 3 and how that relates to electronic
| music specifically. There's a technically-infinite but
| practically-shallow set of pop music configurations and, yes,
| most have been done. What differentiates similar songs is
| composition, timbre, tempo, instrumentation choice, etc. In
| that regard electronic music has a wider palette to work
| with.
| svantana wrote:
| Of course any style of music can get old and repetitive.
| But electronic music in particular has been very tied to
| the technological development of electronic instruments,
| from the moog modular and forward. A style like jungle/dnb
| was simply not possible before the advent of samplers and
| sequencers (well in theory you could do it with tape
| machines, but). Since about 2005 we can do "just about
| anything" with DAWs and plugins.
| Slow_Hand wrote:
| With the development of additive synthesis techniques,
| technically any form of audio/sound is possible. However,
| replicating a single acoustic (or "organic") sound - much
| less an entire composition - through this technique would
| be strenuous and prohibitively labor intensive.
| Analogously, it would be like rendering a new banana by
| arranging some atoms.
|
| Although we can technically "do anything" with the tools
| before us, there are still great strides to be made in
| harnessing the power to organize and control them. For
| this reason, I think we're still far from seeing the full
| potential of electronic music. We need better tools, and
| methods for manipulation of electronic instruments. We
| can barely even replicate and sequence the timbral
| control of something as seemingly simple as singing.
| gregmac wrote:
| It's akin to sorting an incoming set of something like
| Lego, where you never know what's coming next.
|
| Do you need a bin for "red"? Or a bin for "2x4"? Or will
| there be enough for "2x4 red"? Should this new "red hat"
| become it's own bin, and if so is it "hats", "red figure
| decorations" or "misc"?
|
| You don't really know until a bunch of the same things come
| in (or don't), and guaranteed you'll get a bunch wrong
| along the way.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| > 3) Electronic music is "done": most interesting
| permutations of notes, rhythms and timbres have been tried
| already
|
| hold my beer
| Slow_Hand wrote:
| That's a big lol at any form of music being "done". How and
| when would you judge something as broad as a musical style to
| be "done"?
|
| In your opinion, if most of the "interesting permutations
| have been tried" what innovations would it take for a new
| genre/style to develop and broaden the scope of what can be
| expressed?
| have_faith wrote:
| > Playlist culture negates the need for a clear taxonomy of
| music
|
| Very true. Playlist culture has the potential to organise and
| label sound aesthetics in ways that genres do not do justice.
| My playlists are labelled similarly like "Silk" (mostly
| smooth and deep house with elements of other electronic
| genres that fit the aesthetic). Silk is obviously not a genre
| but it's a valid taxonomy to me.
|
| > It takes a few years of hindsight to recognize what is a
| real genre and not just marketing/hype
|
| I think this has greatly shortened in recent years. I think
| new genres can be clearly defined on timescales of months or
| less although it's hard to verify the "legitimacy" of a new
| genre.
|
| > Electronic music is "done"
|
| There are lots of traditional folk genres and acoustic styles
| that don't have a clear synergy with electronic genres yet,
| I'm sure more will surface.
| jerf wrote:
| My guess is that genres have become kinda diluted, because
| they've been sliced hyperfine. Wouldn't you rather be "the
| preeminent producer of Shoe-Slap HyperPunk Shibuya-by-way-of-
| Baghdad Grunge Disco!" than "A decent enough Techno
| composer"?
|
| You show me a playlist of "techno" I've never seen before, I
| have a general idea what I'm in for. You tell me about
| "future bass", I have no clue.
|
| Some of these genres seem more like they're really about some
| specific artist rather than a "genre", that is, the "genre"
| means something more like "I'm inspired by this artist or
| small number of artists" more than anything that ought to be
| called a "genre", if genre is to have any meaning.
|
| ... and as evidence... consult your own emotional reaction.
| Does it feel like I just "attacked" your favorite genre?
| That's actually my point; "genre" somehow carries cache with
| it that "being inspired by" doesn't. So of course there's a
| rush to declare new genres at a breakneck speed.
| mixedCase wrote:
| I can't see how you'd think niche subgenres are replaceable
| by "influencing artists", for even very niche subgenres
| don't tend to gravitate around a single artist as you
| imply. Niche, and at first glance similar stuff like future
| bass, future funk and kawaii future bass are still easy to
| tell apart and have many artists producing original sounds
| that people still associate to the genre.
|
| I don't understand your point in the end either, but it
| feels like you're trying to project anger onto other
| people. Do you feel angry that electronic music genres are
| not as easy to understand as you hoped and are trying to
| rationalize this as people coming up with random genres for
| publicity? Try to think of clear, obvious examples that
| should validate your rationalization, if it is more than
| just that then you'll easily be able to come up with a few
| without reaching for a search engine.
| jerf wrote:
| I guess if I had to summarize my point, you get more of
| what you reward. If you reward people for identifying
| themselves as super-niche genres with acclamation, you're
| going to get an absurdly-finely-sliced set of genres. It
| doesn't mean those hyper-fine genres are necessarily all
| that useful.
|
| If anything, I kinda think it hurts artists to be slicing
| this finely. You can't really just be ambiently
| "creative" without having some sort of constraint and
| structure around you, but jumping into a really small box
| isn't necessarily a great plan either.
| [deleted]
| skrebbel wrote:
| 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.
| flyflyFenix wrote:
| I love this site, but it would take 5 lines of CSS to make it
| more usable. Why would you ever hardcode a 540px margin and
| padding on divs that have no class or id? Here's one line to help
| anyone out to remove horizontal scrollbars to completely blank
| spaces: div,html,body{ max-width: 100%
| !important; }
| mbo wrote:
| There's a great article about this very project called 'What Is
| "Escape Room" And Why Is It One Of My Top Genres On Spotify?'[0]
|
| Long story short, the creator had to assign names to some of the
| clusters the algo spat out, Escape Room being one. Another
| example might include a cluster called Ninja, aptly named as it's
| _mostly_ made of artists from the Ninjatune label. Fascinating
| stuff.
|
| [0] https://festivalpeak.com/what-is-escape-room-and-why-is-
| it-o...
| superjan wrote:
| 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.
| gala8y wrote:
| 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. :)
| gala8y wrote:
| Also... on the other end of the spectrum, there is Sleepbot
| Environmental Broadcast [0] with Ambience for the Masses [1]
| catalogue of ambient music.
|
| And... yes... Mixing of Particulate Solids radio (mops-
| radio.org - not in operation) will be missed with sorrow. It
| was a radio from two guys from Bratislava/Slovakia with three
| streams with only few slots... exceptional. Only recently
| they stopped streaming completely...
|
| [0] http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast/
|
| [1] http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/
| sorghum wrote:
| I've been a huge fan of this project for a while and have some
| tips:
|
| - The Spotify playlists all update automatically (usually
| weekly) so it's worth following genres you like.
|
| - Don't miss the Pulse and Edge playlists linked at the top of
| most genre pages! Both are based on the listening activity of
| fans of the genre, with Pulse focusing on currently popular
| music and Edge on lesser-known artists.
|
| - Smarter Playlists
| (http://smarterplaylists.playlistmachinery.com/) is a visual
| environment for building programmatic playlists using Spotify
| API calls. I use the Pulse and Edge playlists to make my own
| "Release Radar"-style playlists focused on specific genres,
| sorted to show the newest and least popular music first.
|
| I've also been tinkering on a little handheld ESP32 Spotify
| remote that includes the genre and country playlists from here.
| It's handy to use with a smart speaker to browse music when you
| don't know what you want to hear.
|
| Demo video:
| https://twitter.com/sorghum/status/1317623432012472320
|
| Repo: https://github.com/quadule/knobby
| StavrosK wrote:
| Where do you see the playlists? I only see one at the top.
| jakubp wrote:
| Click "list" in the top menu
| https://everynoise.com/everynoise1d.cgi?scope=all
| StavrosK wrote:
| Thank you!
| input_sh wrote:
| 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
| asiachick wrote:
| 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%.
| ..
| 8bitsrule wrote:
| I listened to music for a couple of less-often heard
| instruments, and the genre names were completely off-the-
| mark. Great quantity, little accuracy.
| junon wrote:
| Instantly new favorite website. Wow.
| sbehlasp wrote:
| Agree...I dont know what it is ...but something cool
| joe45643234 wrote:
| Feature request - Loop(repeat). Looping would be great during
| coding session.
| radicalriddler wrote:
| Very good music playlists actually! Especially for Australian
| indie and rock genres!
| kbenson wrote:
| I love when I encounter these sites and learn a name for some
| subgenre or quality of music that I enjoy. I've never really
| cared to really get into discovering and/or researching songs I
| like, I just accrete them over time as I hear something that
| speaks to me.
|
| Apparently quite a lot of artists I like fall under "Big Beat".
| jvm_ wrote:
| /r/listentothis is good for finding different genres, and
| usually a good song from that category as well.
| ddek wrote:
| If you're into most alt styles, /r/indieheads is pretty good
| too.
|
| I quite like going on rym and playing whatever's on the front
| page, that's exposed me to many genres I'd have skipped
| otherwise.
| ulrikrasmussen wrote:
| And /r/ifyoulikeblank for querying the hivemind for
| suggestions for other stuff that you might like.
| at_a_remove wrote:
| This has been a great site for exploring various
| microgenres.
|
| I forget which service offers this -- is it Pandora?
| Sometimes I have some pretty hyper-specific requests that I
| have a hard time describing, and most of the "if you liked
| X you will probably like Y" are entirely too clunky for it.
| frabcus wrote:
| 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!
| input_sh wrote:
| Author has a blog over on https://www.furia.com/, I'd suggest
| spending some time there.
| [deleted]
| chrisweekly wrote:
| >"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."
|
| This is kind of insanely great.
| IndySun wrote:
| 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.
| purplecats wrote:
| this is extremely cool!
| bronlund wrote:
| This is the most fantastic thing!
| Larrikin wrote:
| As much as I love Jersey club I feel its a pretty big insult to
| include it and not Baltimore club
| kensavage wrote:
| I don't know what this is but I love it
| maxerickson wrote:
| It's a genre-map derived from Spotify data.
|
| There's a description at the bottom.
| The_rationalist wrote:
| See also the state of the art for finding similar artists (works
| even for niches) https://www.music-map.com
| pgt wrote:
| Feature request: let me see the song details of the song playing
| so I can find it on Spotify, e.g. Brazilian Tech House is cool.
|
| Request #2: change the address bar when I click on a genre so I
| can share the link of a particular style.
| Bost wrote:
| Eurovision (next to the speedrun) doesn't work. Ooooh... sooo
| disappointed
| meken wrote:
| 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.
| lxgr wrote:
| > 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.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| 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"?
| The_rationalist wrote:
| I strongly want to know what someone that would have experienced
| almost exhaustively all of the music universe, would qualify as
| the best songs (the criterion being potency on qualias). The
| closest I could find are the lists of Scaruffi which is a man
| that has for his life full time job since decades the goal of
| refining its list. https://www.scaruffi.com/ratings/10.html While
| there are some gems I feel like the results would be very
| different had they been generated contemporaneously by someone
| with a younger brain, for example I am in much bigger
| intersection with lukeprog or David Dean Burkhart.
|
| There are websites like rateyourmusic.com but I still can't find
| a platform of recommendations made by passionated experts.
| jvm_ wrote:
| I like scan, but the time is too short, and it skips before I can
| get it to play. Maybe a longer scan period - or just a 'random'
| button.
| teraflop wrote:
| This is awesome.
|
| I can't help but feel that "bemani" is badly misclassified
| compared to its immediate neighbors, though.
| lifthrasiir wrote:
| > I can't help but feel that "bemani" is badly misclassified
| compared to its immediate neighbors, though.
|
| It is not even a genre [1]. How it ended up there is a mystery
| to me.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemani
| the_only_law wrote:
| 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.
| scotty79 wrote:
| Instrumental black metal is surprisingly cheerful.
| _nalply wrote:
| I am deaf. How to proceed from a soundbite to songs or even an
| album? No Spotify and other subscriptions available. It's for my
| 8 year old son who likes to listen to music.
| skeaker wrote:
| Mousing over a button that plays a soundbite will give hover
| text that states the artist and song name.
| agallant wrote:
| This is a fun tool, but it's also pretty revealing of the
| arbitrariness with which "genre" is labeled. Though I get that
| there is frequent innovation in electronic music, I would argue
| the same is true of all music, yet electronic music is the most
| likely to see that innovation as a "new genre."
|
| Searching this page for "jazz" I find results that don't really
| capture the space, and instead go deep into interesting but
| likely unrepresentative niches ("icelandic jazz") that
| musicologists probably wouldn't consider genres/subgenres.
| There's also things that clearly aren't genres but are just
| keywords people like using ("jazz organ", "jazz clarinet").
|
| Overall, again this is a fun music discovery tool, but if you
| want to learn about music genres I'd suggest reading about music
| history. This doesn't just mean old/classical music (though it is
| influential), there's lots of fascinating books about modern
| music as well.
| mttpgn wrote:
| Previous discussion at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585447
| purplecats wrote:
| @hwayne I've already discovered some really cool genres I like
| from this.
|
| since its algorithmic and the data is structured in a somewhat
| ordinal manner, does this man you could perform a @D binary
| search with a rating for every "visit" and be able to pinpoint
| areas of generes that you like?
|
| I'd like to build this if it would help me discover more things
| in a systematic way.
| Nition wrote:
| 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.
| svantana wrote:
| 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. Obviously such
| systems will work better the more popular an artist is.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| 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.
| spoctrial wrote:
| They are not that secretive, it's been written about several
| times. Long story short: a lot of it is still Glenn McDonald,
| the person behind everynoise, that was acquihired when they
| bought echonest.
|
| Here are a few articles about it (there are several more):
| https://artists.spotify.com/blog/how-spotify-discovers-
| the-g... https://www.thefader.com/2020/12/02/escape-room-
| genre-spotif...
| https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-
| ma...
| svantana wrote:
| Well, ideally your spotify artist page should contain the
| genres you're tagged with, along with some info of how that
| came to be, and even a way to request a change to those.
| But they don't want people to game the system, and also not
| let competitors know how they do things (I'm guessing).
| lifeformed wrote:
| I misread the url and thought this was gonna be an April Fool's
| joke from mynoise.net where it has a new noise generator that
| plays every sound at once.
| michaelcampbell wrote:
| God I love that site. It's almost got TOO much; every time I go
| there are a dozen "new" ones to try.
| khimaros wrote:
| IIRC, these folks were acqui-hired by Spotify and are now working
| on their recommender system.
| maxerickson wrote:
| There's quite a few entries about it at https://furia.com/
| [deleted]
| frereubu wrote:
| 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.
| robbiemitchell wrote:
| This site was such an eye opener for me when I found it a couple
| years ago. I had always wondered about this weird genre of
| electronic music I liked to listen to when working and create in
| my spare time, and it turns out to be called "Wave".
| monkpit wrote:
| Glad to see someone mentioning Wave! I have had a Wave playlist
| created for a while now without knowing it was even a genre.
| Then, I googled one of the songs and found out that Ofdream
| died, and discovered the references to the genre name during
| that research. Feels bad.
| pastech wrote:
| I used to watch livestreams of Ofdream making his music. Me
| and my friends felt close to him at the time because there
| wasn't a lot of viewers and we could easily talk. Feels bad
| indeed.
| schmorptron wrote:
| This is incredibly cool, what an amazing project
| soheilpro wrote:
| This is interesting. I'm exploring ways to add music
| discoverability to https://volt.fm and this could help.
| m3kw9 wrote:
| This is awesome for discovering music. Just started listening to
| "Japanese Math Rock" lol
| m3kw9 wrote:
| It's actually fast semi-rock instrumentals, I like it
| unanswered wrote:
| Because I consider myself not to have enough time to truly
| explore music, I'm disappointed that Spotify (same data as this)
| does not make it easier to discover music that's _similar_ to my
| music, but _different_. No matter how I use its "radio" feature
| it's very rare that I find a truly unique branch to explore that
| doesn't just lead back to the same artists, or at least to the
| same sub-genre.
|
| Unfortunately I don't see the common theme in music I like
| represented in the two dimensions chosen for this representation,
| so it doesn't help terribly much. Given I like (per this data)
| "Celtic" and "neo-mellow", it turns out "japanese guitar" and
| "pop rock" aren't actually the correct next steps for me...
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Start with an obscure artist: various sites will then recommend
| "Radiohead". Yeah, I think I heard of them.
|
| How about recommending _other_ obscure stuff rather than
| funneling everything into mainstream?
|
| I feel like they find other users that like the same artist,
| then look for other artists these users also like ... it
| ferrets out the lowest common denominator.
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