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Oooh! New time sink!

Lookit the time waster Uncle B found! It’s called Every Noise at Once (URL everynoise.com). It’s a giant color-coded map of very musical genre on Spotify.

Every Noise at Once was a long-running attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 6,291 genre-shaped distinctions at Spotify through 2023-11-19. 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.

Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.

Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists.

It’s actually ten years old and is static now because the creator got laid off from Spotify. Click the name of a genre to hear a sample; click the right arrows after the genre to see a map of the artists associated with the genre (who can also be sampled).

Very cool.

Comments


Comment from QuasiModo
Time: September 22, 2025, 9:24 pm

That’s actually pretty brilliant, so of course they got rid of the guy…only place for DEI corporate androids in the workplace these days.


Comment from Jasonius
Time: September 23, 2025, 4:14 am

Stoaty you bring us the most neatest stuff.


Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: September 23, 2025, 9:22 am

She does provide a refreshing view of what life can be like outside the 4 hour doom scrolling cycle doesn’t she?
🙈🙉🙊 🐭


Comment from S.Weasel
Time: September 23, 2025, 11:08 am

I get more traffic when I do politics, but eh.


Comment from Teej
Time: September 29, 2025, 2:09 am

I only didn’t post because I’ve been lost in oldschool deutschrap for … a while

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