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Music animation machine
Anyone can listen to music, but how can you see it? The Music Animation Machine plays music (ancient MIDI files) and displays it in real-time. On the vertical are notes and time runs on the horizontal. Here's Debussy's classic Clair... -
How little musicians earn online
You've heard about the struggling musician. It's a tough business. How tough is it though? David McCandless of Information is Beautiful, looks at how much musicians make from major online outlets. Bubbles are sized by how many sales or plays... -
Planets make sweet music together
SolarBeat is an audiolization by Whitevinyl that makes music with the planets. Each planet is assigned a note. As the planets orbit, a note is played each time a year passes on that planet. Result: the planets make sweet, sweet... -
Crowdsourcing Johnny Cash
Aaron Koblin (along with Chris Milk) is up to his crowdsourcing mischief again. It started with sheep, then the dollar bill, to a bicycle built for two, and now the Johnny Cash Project. Along the same lines of Aaron's other... -
Twitter predicts the future?
A recent study [pdf] by Sitaram Asur and Bernardo A. Huberman at HP Labs found that it's possible to use Twitter chatter to predict first-weekend box office revenues simply based on volume of tweets. The predictions were even more accurate... -
A Defense of the Unknown in Infographics
"We’re inventors - we’re creators. And that’s the most important thing about what we do." -
Visualize your Last.fm listening patterns with LastHistory
Frederik Seiffert provides this nifty tool, LastHistory, to visualize your Last.fm listening history. Mouse over songs and find repeated track sequences. The visualization itself isn't all that useful, but it gets interesting when you hook your calendar and photos in... -
Olympic musical – how fractions of second make all the difference
Like everyone, I've been watching the Olympics, and it continues to amaze me how hundredths of a second can make up the difference between a gold medal and nothing at all. Amanda Cox of The New York Times visualizes and... -
Weekend Fodder
Here are some links and stuff to chew on as you wait for the Super Bowl, in between the beer, pizza, and wings. Pink Floyd Timeline, 1960-2000 - A highly stylized timeline of music from Pink Floyd over the... -
Beatles Music in Infographics
I'm sure a lot of you love The Beatles. I'm not a huge fan myself, but for those who are, you will love these graphics from designer Michael Deal. The graphic up top shows the level of collaboration between group... -
Timescapes to Compare Chopin Recordings
How do you compare music visually? You can break it down into data by quantifying the notes, volume, etc and then visualize it with timescapes (above). The horizontal axis represents musical time, from the beginning to end of a piece.... -
A Visual History of Loudness in Popular Music
All Things Considered discusses why music sounds worse than it did a few decades ago. Through a practice using compressors, the quiet parts of a song are made louder and the louder parts quieter so that the song as a...