Contemporary representations of music genres
The simplicity of these designs effectively communicate the music genre, often personifying the genres name itself. This brief is asking for something more complex to be shown in the designs, but it is still interesting to look at how effective the minimal approach can be.
The limited colour palette for each of the posters allows for the simplicity of the visuals that are personifying the genre to be emphasised. A palette with a larger number of colours or more textures would over complicate something with a very simple meaning/message.
Anita Lillie
Anita has released a series of art that visualise particular songs and their structures using a software found on 'The Echo Nest'. This software takes an MP3 file, breaks it up into little segments, and gives pitch, loudness, and high-level timbral descriptions of each one of those segments.
About:
Anita uses the three pieces of data which are time, pitch and timbre to then build up visuals of these.
Time - mapped to the horizontal axis, irregularly-sized segments, vertical segments
Pitch - mapped along the vertical axis, corresponding to the 12 semitones in an octave (the chromatic scale), those notes that 'run off' the top of the visual space loop back around to the bottom of the space, vice versa
Timbre - each vertical slice is coloured with an RGB value corresponing to the timbre of the sound in that segment, colour captures the varibility, similar sounds have similar colours, can be a little confusing
Pictures of songs:
Nirvana, Come As You Are
Beethoven, Fur Elise
Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
Kraftwerk, Pocket Calculator
Daft Punk, Superheroes
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