Every Noise at Once: music discovery and genre exploration.

 

Every Noise at Once is an interactive, algorithmically-generated map of musical genres, created by data engineer Glenn McDonald. The platform visualizes the vast landscape of music genres by arranging them in a scatter-plot based on their audio characteristics.

Each genre on the map is clickable, allowing users to listen to a representative audio sample. Further exploration is facilitated through links to related artists and tracks, as well as dedicated Spotify playlists for each genre. The site also offers various tools for exploring music by city, country, record label, and demographic data.

Originally developed at The Echo Nest—a music intelligence firm acquired by Spotify in 2013—Every Noise at Once was maintained by McDonald during his tenure at Spotify. However, following his departure from the company in December 2023, the site ceased receiving updates, with its data frozen as of November 19, 2023.

Despite no longer being updated, Every Noise at Once remains a valuable resource for music discovery and genre exploration. You can explore the map and its features at everynoise.com.

 

https://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

 

 

H1tchr lets you hitch up songs you think sound alike

 

H1tchr is a free online platform designed for music enthusiasts to explore and create connections between songs. It enables users to identify and link songs that share similarities in sound, lyrics, samples, or themes, fostering a collaborative environment for musical discovery.

https://www.h1tchr.com/

 

 

live radio from around the world: radio garden (web/app)

 

Radio Garden invites you to explore live radio from around the world.

By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away.

https://radio.garden

 

 

Bb 2.0 collaborative music and spoken word project with youtube

 

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together.

Unfortunately the site does not work properly on mobile devices. Please view on laptop/desktop. If you don't hear any audio, it may be because YouTube remembers the volume level of the last video you played. Try playing any YouTube video with the volume up, then return to the site.

Learn more in the FAQ.

You may also enjoy marker/music, another music, video and spoken word project, produced in collaboration with NSU in South Dakota.

https://inbflat.net/ 

 

The sound of a tree

 What would the trunk of a tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP? With his creation Years, Bartholomäus Traubeck attempts to answer that question by using a turntable, PlayStation Eye Camera, a stepper motor to control the arm, and computer running Ableton Live. As you’ll hear in the video above, the rings of the tree trunk, as interpreted by this piece, create an eerie and ominous piano track that sounds like it was taken from psychological horror film. Who knew trees were so emo? [via Creative Applications]

The ‘Free Music Machine’, 1948

The ‘Free Music Machine’. Percy Grainger & Burnett Cross, USA/Australia, 1948

via: http://120years.net/the-free-music-machinepercy-grainger-burnett-crossusaaustralia1948-2/

Disco/graph

Disco/graph is an interactive visualization of the relationships between musicians, bands and labels.

Find a lot of songs from a specific year on The Nostalgia Machine

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What kind of music is this?

Discover and learn music genre with this interactive map.

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

Artist Bartholomaus Traubeck has created musical masterpieces, by playing trees. He created a record player that translates the different colors and textures of tree rings into music. Rather than use a needle like a record, sensors gather information about the wood and turn them into piano notes. Every tree sounds vastly unique due to varying characteristics of the rings, such as strength, thickness and rate of growth.
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
via: http://educateinspirechange.org/science-technology/musical-trees-tree-sounds-like/

Using Sound To Levitate And Move Things In Three Dimensions

via: http://gadgetzz.com/2014/02/27/using-sound-levitate-move-things-3d/


Watch also:

The Visual Patterns of Audio Frequencies Seen through Vibrating Sand

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic on eight floppy drives

Sound als Waffe

Handys piepsen, Staubsauger lärmen, Flugzeuge donnern: Geräusche können unangenehm sein. Aber nicht nur das - sie können sogar als Waffen genutzt werden, warnt ein Designforscher auf der re:publica.

Artikel lesen:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/republica-2016-sound-als-waffe-a-1087999.html

Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

Marble Machine built and composed by Martin Molin. Thanks to Jens Köbernick: https://takadimi.de/blog/die-wintergatan-marble-machine/

Theremin - Clara Rockmore play "The Swan" (Saint-Saëns)

Performed by Clara Rockmore (1911-1998), the first performer to bring complete musical artistry to the theremin. This song from suit "The Carnival of the Animals"

Musique concrète, literally.

Musique concrète, literally: Ricardo Kocadag has developed a record made entirely out of concrete. Amazingly, it plays on any turntable, as you can see and hear in the video. We would have probably chosen another track (i.e. “Concrete Jungle” by Troy Brown or “Concrete” by The Neon Judgement) but it’s cool to see what’s possible in the world of weird music formats.

listen:
Reblog from:
http://www.electronicbeats.net/feed/heres-first-record-made-concrete-sounds-like/

http://www.bln.fm/2015/12/probelauf-so-klingt-die-erste-schallplatte-aus-beton/

All you need to know about the Drum Language of the Congo

The Lokele people of the Congo use two-tone log drums to communicate phrases in their language.  They can accomplish this because their language is tonal.  That is, each syllable in a word has a high or low tone.  The tonal patterns that result in their speech are the same tonal patterns that they drum.  By communicating in this way, they create drum language in which their vocabulary is always understood in the context of phrases.  Listen to Phil explain how this works by pressing the Play button below.

Visit the page of Phil Tulga:
http://www.philtulga.com/Talking%20with%20Drums.html

Giant Wooden Xylophone Playing Bach

Have you ever seen a giant wooden xylophone in the forest? Just kidding, of course you haven’t! Well until now that is…. The Japanese adverting agency known as Drill Inc. built a giant wooden xylophone that’s roughly a mile long in the middle of a forest. Each wooden key is made up individual notes, and when a wooden ball starts rolling down it, it plays Bach’s famous Cantata 147. And yeah… they did all of this for a cell phone commercial.

thanks to https://www.facebook.com/adelphoimusic for the link.

http://canyouactually.com/this-incredible-mile-long-wooden-xylophone-plays-bach-when-you-roll-a-ball-down-it/

Help science by testing your music recognition... Online Music Quiz

Help science by testing your music recognition...

Everyone knows a hook when they hear one, but scientists don't know why.
By playing the #HookedOnMusic game you are exploring the science of songs and helping scientists unlock what makes music catchy.

And have fun with this music quiz :-)

http://www.hookedonmusic.org.uk/

Erfindung der Jukebox

Es hätte ein Diktiergerät werden sollen, doch dann kam Musik raus: Vor 125 Jahren begann die Karriere eines schrankartigen Kastens namens "Jukebox", der per Knopfdruck Ohrwürmer erzeugte - tödlich, zumindest in einem Fall. Von Katja Iken

Artikel lesen: http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/erfindung-der-jukebox-a-1003533.html