[sehugg]

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 projects by the author at the bottom.

[gregsadetsky]

The webmaster of everynoise.com, Glenn McDonald, works at Spotify as "Data Alchemist". Good article on his work here [0]. Excerpt:

"Subgenres are McDonald's business. By going over listener data and identifying patterns, McDonald and his co-workers can identify clusters of artists who might coalesce into a genre—something he’s been doing since his earliest days at the music-intelligence company The Echo Nest, which Spotify bought in 2014. Today, his work with Spotify's data helps listeners discover artists that may have been hiding in plain sight. McDonald’s “data alchemy” helps populate the Fans Also Like sections of Spotify's artist pages, as well as Daily Mix; it also provides a real-time chronicle of how music is developing and splintering into different styles."

[0] https://artists.spotify.com/blog/trap-queen-and-the-data-sci...

[colordrops]

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.

[dmitriid]

> Interesting choice of dimensions...

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.

[yreg]

What do the colours mean?

[dmitriid]

Unfortunately, I can't remember :( COuld be rythm or number of instruments.