Friday Fun: Every Noise at Once
Happy Friday All,
(Yes, it's already Friday in futureland a.k.a. Australia, lucky jerks!)
It's not quite the end of the week here in the USA and I've got my music turned up and working hard on some new software integration projects. I won't bore you with the details, but thought that today I would share one of my favorite things on the internet: Every Noise at Once
How it works:
Every Noise seeks to map the entire human experience of music via visual representation. Clicking on each link will play a sample of a song that represents that specific genre.
When you click the little arrows on the right of the example, the site takes you to a page that has every artist that's currently been mapped to that sound.
Bonus: Click this link and you'll be presented with genre playlists for a large portion of their library.
In my opinion, this is a FANTASTIC way to find music you like and branch out into new sounds. Load up the page, close your eyes, and click away!
Please share your favorite genres below, and feel free to post pictures and links of some of YOUR favorite artists. As for me, I'll be jammin to my deep deep tech trance... beastmode activate.
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@Max Foerster - K15t and @Meg Holbrook, thanks for mentioning both Last.fm and Grooveshark, it's like I'm back when I was 17-ish spending hours on those!
I moved to Grooveshark once Radioblogclub (not sure it was known anywhere else than France) closed, and am now happily using Spotify!
@Meg Holbrook, I recently found a picture again I took in 2015 on a festival (Fusion Festival). That's a proper location for goa/darkpsy! :D
I won't be in Barcelona this year, but if you make it out to Vegas next year, I'll see you then! I'd love to swap stories. As you can see, I clearly hate the whole place and never want to go back.
Ok, here are some of my favorite styles and artists. And the picture below is in my honest opinion the great composer in the history of forever. Anything he produces is GOLD!
celtic: Enya, Celtic Woman, Ronan Hardiman, Bill Whelan
soundtrack: John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt, Alan Menken
christian music: Andrew Peterson, Rich Mullins, Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, Michael Card, Switchfoot
comic: "Weird Al" Yankovic
pop: Ed Sheeran
pop rock: Five For Fighting, Creed, Dave Matthews Band
new age: Yanni, Jim Brickman
metal: Metallica
operatic pop: Josh Groban
lounge: Harry Connick Jr, Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra
thanks for sharing this link and definitly something I have to share with my dad (who is absolutly into music). This will give me a lot of fun over rainy weekend :)
What I found out yet - German music is so not my thing - wanna know why, click on Deep Discofox :D
... that brings me to a problem, I won tickets for Sarah Connor for tonight and she will be singing in German ...
And no - it's not the Sarah Connor you see here :D - that would be awesome! I'm talking about German Pop Queen
Yeeah! Music! That is my life :) .. I cannot work, drive, eat .. live without it! :) Thank you @Meg Holbrook for inspiration with this site. Thanks to that I was able to get back and redefine my playlist with couple of new songs.
My one favorite artist? It actually may not exist! I like every type of music that is released. From Classic up to hard rock. It depends on my frame of mind. But I listen most to all kind of electronic music.
@Fabienne Gerhardmentioned that she cannot listen German music. Not sure why since many artist are from Germany and they are relly good.. One of the best IMHO .. Hans Zimmer. I think everyone hear at least one song since he creates awesome soundtracks for coolest movies and games!
That is the guy ..
Hmm.. And you know what? Yes! Maybe that is really my favorite artist. He is even having his own stars floating over galaxy ;) https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=495253 That mean something :)
I played on Every Noise for hours last night. Music is such a huge part of by work day I dug deep into obscure genres and found stuff I never new existed (Pirate Metal really is a thing!) I listen to all types of music, depending on my mood and what I'm doing, so this was a lot of fun to explore.
My workday usually starts with a cup of coffee and Classical music. Lately I find myself listening to movie scores...Today it's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" that is keeping pace with me while I update the weekly status reports. I never really paid any attention to the music in a movie and how it catches you up in the scene until those movies came out; specifically how I felt right there with the Nine Walkers as they fled through Moria as the goblin horde pursued. Even though I knew the scene by heart from the books I still held my breath as the music built and built and built the tension until Gandalf confronts the Barlog and falls.
Music like that evokes so many emotions, helps engage the listener in the story, and, even years later, makes me hold my breath as Gandalf hangs of the bridge with the weight of a demon pulling him towards certain death. Every time I hear that piece I also hear Gandalf:
