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Despite no longer being updated, Every Noise at Once remains a valuable resource for music discovery and genre exploration.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

 

 

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/

Sound of Ancient Languages

This one is not really about music, but about lost languages. Hear how sounds ancient languages like

• Ancient Egypt / 3100 BC - 332 BC 
• Achaemenids / 550 BC–330 BC 
• Ancient Greece / c. 800 BC - c. 600 AD 
• Ancient Rome / 753 BC–476 AD 
• Assyria / 1813 BC–612 BC 
• Göktürks / 552 AD-744 AD 
• Hittites / c. 1600 BC–c. 1178 BC 
• Akkadians / c. 2334 BC - c. 2154 BC 
• Aztec / c. 1100 AD - 1533 AD 
• Celts / c. 517 BC - C. 100 AD 
• Mayans / c. 2000 BC - c. 1700 AD 
• Sumerians / 4000 BC - 2000 BC 
• Urartu / 860 BC–590 BC 
• Vikings / 800AD - 1066 AD

The Top 100 One-Hit Wonders of All Time

Check out this list of 100 One-Hit wonder.

via: http://www.instash.com/the-top-100-one-hit-wonders-of-all-time

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937-2001)

Read:
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/the-history-of-electronic-music-in-476-tracks-1937-2001.html

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

Original songs with less success than the cover II

Check these original songs of famous covers.

 The Melodians - Rivers Of Babylon (1970)

Jason Crest - Waterloo Road (1968)

 The Arrows - I Love Rock N Roll (1975)

 Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep last Night (1944-48)*

 Goria Jones - Tainted Love (1964)

 Neil Diamond - Red red wine (1968)


http://antekzzz.blogspot.de/2010/12/original-songs-with-less-success-than.html

Sextape: Hours and hours of awesome music from '70s porn films

Listen to houuuuurs of awesome music from '70s porn films compiles by Drixxxé on Mixcloud

Sextape by Drixxxé on Mixcloud

Thank you Tara McGinley for this post!

Early Speech Synthesizer (1939)

Considered the first electrical speech synthesizer, VODER (Voice Operation DEmonstratoR) was developed by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs and demonstrated at both the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Difficult to use and difficult to operate, VODER nonetheless paved the way for future machine-generated speech.

Robot voice from 1940

A long time before Daft Punk and Kraftwerk: The sonovox from the movie "You'll Find Out", in year 1940.

Amazing device that gives voice to musical instruments. The Sonovox consists of one or two louspeakers placed on the throat that play the source sound. The performer whispers the words while the speakers stand in for the voice box. Used for the talking train in Disney's Dumbo, uncountable radio promos, a tube-in-the-mouth version "Talk Box" was used by Frampton to make his guitar sing, and all-electronic "Vocoder" versions are still used in current pop music.

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

Google Music Time Line

^What is the Music Timeline?

The Music Timeline shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe on the graph represents a genre; the thickness of the stripe tells you roughly the popularity of music released in a given year in that genre. (For example, the "jazz" stripe is thick in the 1950s since many users' libraries contain jazz albums released in the '50s.) Click on the stripes to zoom into more specialized genres.

Explore the timelime here

What the Future Sounded Like

Brilliant documentary about the birth of electronic music in Britain. The documentary enjoyed screenings at several film festivals around Australia and on ABC TV.

Official web site for the film:
http://www.whatthefuturesoundedlike.com/

Electronic Music Studios home page:
http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/
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Neanderthal Bone Flute Music

Short film, full title is Playing the Neanderthal flute of Divje babe, is authored by Sašo Niskač, music is performed by Ljuben Dimkaroski, scientific adviser is Dr. Ivan Turk, archaeologist. Extraordinary find from 1995 in Divje babe cave site, western Slovenia, it is most comprehensively described in the paper athttp://www.cpa.si/tidldibab.pdf, was met with great enthousiasm on one side and with great scepticism on the other side of the scientific audience, for details see http://www.greenwych.ca/divje-b.htm. Only in 2009 the dilemma if the holes in the bone were accidental or purpose-made, was finally resolved. Ljuben Dimkaroski, member of the Ljubljana Opera Orchestra for 35 years (trumpet), was given a clay replica of the flute by the curator of Slovenian National Museum on occasion of Ljuben's exhibition "Image in Stone". In his dreams, about a year later, he got a clue of how to play this prehistoric instrument. The result you can see and hear by yourself, or live, performed on a concert, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38AFm-TUywE

First attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization (two men dancing).

This short film was a test for Edison's "Kinetophone" project, the first attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization. This was an experiment by William Dickson to put sound and film together either in 1894 or 1895. Unfortunately, this experiment failed because they didn't understand synchronization of sound and film. The large cone on the left hand side of the frame is the "microphone" for the wax cylinder recorder (off-camera). The Library of Congress had the film. The wax cylinder soundtrack, however, was believed lost for many years. Tantalizingly, a broken cylinder labeled "Violin by WKL Dickson with Kineto" was catalogued in the 1964 inventory at the Edison National Historic Site. In 1998, Patrick Loughney, curator of Film and Television at the Library of Congress, retrieved the cylinder and had it repaired and re-recorded at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound, Lincoln Center, New York. Since the Library did not possess the necessary synchronizing technology, Loughney - at the suggestion of producer Rick Schmidlin - sent multi-Oscar winner Walter Murch a videotape of the 17 seconds of film and an audiocassette of 3 minutes and 20 seconds of sound with a request to marry the two. By digitizing the media and using digital editing software, Murch was able to synchronize them and complete the failed experiment 105 years later. This 35mm film was generously made available to the Internet Archive by Walter Murch and Sean Cullen.


OTHER TITLES
Title on donor inventory: Dickson violin
Variant title: Dancing men in the Black Maria

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1895].

SUMMARY
Experimental sound film made for Edison's kinetophone -- a combination of the kinetoscope and phonograph -- but apparently never distributed. This LC copy is silent. Features two men dancing to a violinist.
Shows W. K. L. Dickson playing the violin before a large phonograph horn connected with an off-screen reader while two men dance together. Part of Dickson's sound-synchronization experiments.

NOTES
Copyright: no reg.
Performer: W.K.L. Dickson or Charles D'Almaine.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:21 at 30 fps.
LC also holds a copy of the synchronized sound version in the videodisc collection, More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Filmed ca. September 1894 to April 2, 1895, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, N.J.
This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 178.

[via] http://archive.org/details/dicksonfilmtwo and http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+4034))+@field(COLLID+edison))