The Past, Present and Future of Portable Music
3:00 pm
Infographic: Music And Piracy
11:00 am
A new infographic from D. Israel Peralta compiles data from various industry sources and Oddee.com to show how the music industry’s published figures about piracy compare to other external sources. Some numbers worth looking at:
- Digital music has grown from $20M in 2003 to $4.2B in 2009
- The industry claims 95% Piracy Rate, while only 10% are seen as a loss of sales
- The Average teen’s iPod has $800 of Pirated Music
There is also breakdowns of where the $15.99 of an Album sale goes, along with individual figures for the major labels.
Full-size after the break.
Music And Piracy Infographic by =curseofthemoon on deviantART. via Cool Infographics
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
10:00 am
If you think you have it bad, imagine making only $0.00043 cents per song you make. Your song would have to be played over 23 times just to make a penny, and over 2,325 times just to make a dollar. Then you could go buy something off the cheap menu at McDonalds.
Recently, the UK government passed The Digital Economy Act which included many, perhaps draconian, measures to combat online music piracy (including withdrawing broadband access for persistent pirates).
Much was proclaimed about how these new laws would protect musicians and artists revenue and livelihoods.
But how much money do musicians really get paid in this new digital marketplace?
via How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful.
Clavilux 2000 Keyboard Makes Music Look As Beautiful As It Sounds
11:00 am
Gizmodo has posted an article on the Clavilux 2000 keyboard. This is a keyboard that visually displays the music that someone is playing. View the video above and take a look at the article for more details. It makes me wish I knew how to play the piano.
The Clavilux is a digital keyboard rigged up to a projector, letting the audience see the music they’re hearing. And it really is the music they’re seeing: each stripe of light corresponds directly to a key that is struck, the individual bands representing the velocity and length of each note played.
The notes are assigned colors, as well, giving a visual overview of the harmony of the piece. Play a note that’s out of key and its color will contrast with the bigger picture.
via Clavilux 2000 Keyboard Makes Music Look As Beautiful As It Sounds – Clavilux2000 – Gizmodo.
Visualizing Last.fm Listening Histories with LastHistory
5:00 pm
A new MaxOSX visualization packages lets you connect to your Last.FM listening history and visualize the various music you’ve heard to find patterns the recurring themes. IN the basic mode, left-to-right is dates, and top-to-bottom is hours. Highlight any dot to see information about the song, including other times it was played. Merge it with your iPhoto and iCal databases to see what you were doing at the time. All for free on any Mac OSX system.
Download the softare (And source code) here, and view a demonstration video below.
LastHistory – Interactive Visualization of Last.fm Listening Histories and Personal Streams from Frederik Seiffert on Vimeo.
Visualizing Piano Music with the Piano Spiral
3:00 pm
An interesting visualization of Piano Music makes use of the repetitive design of the piano, 12 semitones on black and white keys, and maps it onto a spiral where each ring of the spiral indicates another octave.
In this representation, the notes with higher frequencies are in the center of the spiral, starting with C8 (as in the piano). Each radial block of keys represents a single pitch class, so octaves (when two adjacent notes of the same pitch class are played togeter) look like a pair of keys being pressed radially. You’ll see this a lot in the Scott Joplin videos I’m going to upload shortly.
An interesting approach that yields some neat graphics. Not terribly interesting from a science aspect, but fun to watch.
Visualizing the Music of Chopin
8:52 pm
Today was the 200th birthday of Frederic Chopin, romantic classical composer of some great classical music such as “The Minute Waltz“, the “Funeral March“, and several others.
Passing in 17 October 1849, I thought it only proper to share this nice visualization of one of his classic pieces. Enjoy.
Interact with the History of Electronic Music with SYNC/LOST
11:00 am
Visualize the history of electronic music with a new interactive installation, controlled by WiiMote with wireless headphones to let you hear the experience. Part of the 3bits Labs, they aim to show the evolution and interconnectivity of the various genres of music (House, Techno, Ambient, Hip Hop) and show how they have mixed to create entirely new styles.
SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.
The project’s objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. The choice is individual and leads to a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information.
See a video of the installation below.
via SYNC/LOST. via InformationAesthetics
Michael Deal visualizes The Beatles
5:00 pm
Michael Deal has released a beautiful collection of visualizations of the Beatle’s history and influence on his website.
These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording sesion notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings.
He shows four large charts:
- Authorship & Collaboration, based on William J. Dowdling’s Beatlesongs
- Self Reference, showing how later music refers back to earlier songs
- Song Keys, showing the various keys in several songs
- The Working Schedule 1963-1966
Go check them out in all their glory, then hit the Flickr group for even more.
Body Parts in Music Genre’s : Fleshmap
8:27 am
Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg collaborated to analyze a huge collection of music and create an infographic showing the various mentions of human body parts.
What do we sing about, when we sing about the body? The chart below, based on a sample of thousands songs, tells the story. The size of a circle corresponds to how often that part is mentioned in each genre. Click on a genre name to see a close-up that shows exactly what words were used.
Warning: Some of the images are NSFW.
VizWorld.com 
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