April 27, 2012
jtotheizzoe: Using last.fm Data to Map Geographic Flow of Music By tapping into the last.fm API, these Irish researchers modeled the geographic flow of musical influence. They were able to identify where certain tastes frequently originated, and draw a hierarchy of influential cities (like the chart shown above for North America). Surprisingly, the size of a city doesn’t associate very strongly with how influential it is. That means that despite its enormous size, NYC isn’t that much more influential than Portland or Austin. There are prevailing theories that large cities are the drivers of cultural invention, but this seems to show (for music, at least) that a connected online world is leveling that playing field. Also, they have a graph displaying “Normalized Radiohead vs. Normalized Coldplay”, which has to go down as one of the best figures in a research paper, ever.  (via arXiv) More reason to scrobble.

jtotheizzoe:

Using last.fm Data to Map Geographic Flow of Music

By tapping into the last.fm API, these Irish researchers modeled the geographic flow of musical influence. They were able to identify where certain tastes frequently originated, and draw a hierarchy of influential cities (like the chart shown above for North America).

Surprisingly, the size of a city doesn’t associate very strongly with how influential it is. That means that despite its enormous size, NYC isn’t that much more influential than Portland or Austin. There are prevailing theories that large cities are the drivers of cultural invention, but this seems to show (for music, at least) that a connected online world is leveling that playing field.

Also, they have a graph displaying “Normalized Radiohead vs. Normalized Coldplay”, which has to go down as one of the best figures in a research paper, ever. 

(via arXiv)

More reason to scrobble.

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Filed under: last.fm infographics music research paper 
March 14, 2012

“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.” — Jarbas Agnelli, Birds on the Wires.

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Filed under: Jarbas Agnelli Birds on the Wires music vimeo 
December 2, 2011
inky: Soundcloud, I don’t understand your waveforms!

inky:

Soundcloud, I don’t understand your waveforms!

(via inky)

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Filed under: soundcloud waveforms audio sound music 
October 8, 2011
Shure SRH440 > Beats by Dr. Dre Get a Grado SR60i for best bang for your buck.

Shure SRH440 > Beats by Dr. Dre

Get a Grado SR60i for best bang for your buck.

(Source: pandemical)

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Filed under: beats shure sennheiser AKG grado etymotic audio technica JB: beyerdyanemic agreed rant argument music beats suck 
September 20, 2011
indistans: This is my new favourite sound- The deep, mid punch from the Japanese made JA-S11G and the detailed rounded highs from the American Grado SR-325i’s make for the perfect high-end vintage tone everyone goes looking for when listening to The Dark Side of the Moon.

indistans:

This is my new favourite sound- The deep, mid punch from the Japanese made JA-S11G and the detailed rounded highs from the American Grado SR-325i’s make for the perfect high-end vintage tone everyone goes looking for when listening to The Dark Side of the Moon.

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Filed under: grado JVC audiophile headphones music aesthetics vintage retro vintage sound retro sound american built japanese built Pink Floyd music photography photo stereo hi-fi high fidelity 
September 9, 2011

(Source: bare-feet)

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Filed under: sleep music sofa ipod ill Illustration 
July 16, 2011

witchheadnebula:

Game of Thrones cover by Jason Yang ♥

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Filed under: Game of Thrones violin cover music youtube 
July 5, 2011
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

— Plato

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May 17, 2011
shakirahr: designtank: A graphic designer, Laia Clos, developed a visual system to represent Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for a musician friend. Via gregmelander and August de los Reyes. Music + Colour = Brilliance 

shakirahr:

designtank:

A graphic designer, Laia Clos, developed a visual system to represent Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for a musician friend.

Via gregmelander and August de los Reyes.

Music + Colour = Brilliance 

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Filed under: concerto graphic music visualisation vivaldi four seasons 
May 3, 2011

izzyownsa:

It’s been 5 years since the release of Perfect Match, the debut album by Bittersweet, a local indie band hailing from Ipoh, Perak.

And having heard a teaser of their songs here, I must say, I’m quite excited for their sophomore release! 

Here’s a video of their latest single, 1234, which is rather unconventional for local standards with its Donnie Darko-ish theme. I do hope this will set the benchmark for more great videos by local indie bands in Malaysia.

I foresee great things ahead for the Malaysian indie scene, and I’m excited!

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Filed under: 1234 Bittersweet music video vimeo 
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