The iPod shuffle, pandora and the artful exercises Bill Drummond talked about on No Music Day all show that there are all sorts of interesting ways to find and listen to music. Some involve humans and physical music stuff (like familymusic and the album club) some involve watching behaviour and clever algorithms. One of these is this musicovery which I'm rather enjoying. There's too much to explain so go and have a look for yourselves, it's worth it.
I love this almost more than I love you
Posted by: richard | November 27, 2006 at 04:28 PM
It is indeed very impressive.
I do sometimes worry though that these things are made by people whose knowledge of music only goes as far as the Top 40 at their local Woolworths. I went to the far left for 'dark' hoping for something that would cause me to have an epileptic fit, and was instead offered a bunch of 'c's - Coldplay, Chris Issak and Counting Crows.
That's a pretty light kinda dark.
Posted by: Lebowski | November 27, 2006 at 04:38 PM
Musicovery is positively thrilling. Thanks for sharing Russell.
Posted by: Ayasha | November 27, 2006 at 05:07 PM
This is fantastic!! Great find, Russell!
Posted by: FiNK | November 27, 2006 at 06:07 PM
Love it. Thanks for sharing. And I'm sure you saw the blurb on Haystack a couple weeks ago in Trendcentral, but if not, here you go:
http://trendcentral.com/trends/trendarticle.asp?tcArticleId=1718
I've only barely scratched the surface of it so far but like what I have found to date. In fact, going to see two of the bands I found this coming Wednesday night.
Cheers & Thanks again!
Posted by: paul | November 28, 2006 at 06:26 AM
Love this. People are experiential, we don't remember things in linear ways. Can you remember the last ten emails you read and what you did with each and in what order? But you can remember what you did in the last minutes...walked down the hall, sat at your desk, opened your notebook up, sipped your coffee, etc. We remember experiences and visual references. That's what makes this a more meaningful interface.
Posted by: Hashem Bajwa | November 28, 2006 at 10:13 AM
This is so intuitive and amazing -I wish I could set up my Ipod this way. Moody times call for mood-aware music, I suppose.
Posted by: dipti | November 28, 2006 at 05:33 PM
This is so intuitive and amazing -I wish I could set up my Ipod this way. Moody times call for mood-aware music, I suppose.
Posted by: dipti | November 28, 2006 at 05:33 PM
This is defo my favorite way to find music
http://hype.non-standard.net/
it basically aggregates all the mp3s from some of the best music blogs out there - you can listen to the songs on the Hype Machine and then when you find something you like you go and read all about it on the actual blog AND you get an MP£ to take home with you.
Posted by: grumblemouse | November 30, 2006 at 05:00 PM
Nice site
This is quite good too, although you do have to pretend to have a US zip code to get access
http://www.pandora.com/
Posted by: phil | December 01, 2006 at 03:04 PM