Every Noise at Once · glenn mcdonald

This is an ongoing attempt at a useful flattening of the musical genre-space tracked by Spotify into a simple sortable list.
This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1536 genres by Spotify. 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.

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