Everynoiseatonce.com Discussion

[innerspaceboy]

For years everynoiseatonce has been kicking around, quietly compiling Spotify audio data and presenting it in the form of an interactive, customizable music discovery engine. For those who might not have explored it before, the site was built by one dude from Echo Nest, who describes the project as a categorical perception spectrum of genres and subgenres based on “an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1461 genres by Spotify.”

Click on any genre in the map to hear a song of that style. Ever explore Russiavision? Nintendocore? Norwegian Gospel? How about Christian Hardcore? It’s all here.

But the initial layer of the site is just the beginning. Click the arrow beside a genre label to recluster the data into a cloud of related artists of the chosen genre. The ‘scan’, ‘playlist’, ‘pulse’, and ‘edge’ buttons will pull related content from Spotify.

Or click the ‘list’ menu item on the homepage for a vertical hierarchy of genres, dynamically sortable by factors including popularity, emergence, modernity, engagement, and “xmasness” among others. And clicking any resulting genre will resort the results by similarity to the selected style.

It’s a metadata K-hole for sure, but you might just find something you like.

As someone who’s never touched Spotify or any other streaming service, it’s curious to crawl their data this way. I’d love to hear if anyone has found the site useful?

[OccultHawk]

I've been on an ambient/drone kick for quite some time so that's where I went first. Spotify already does a good job of recommending the next thing you'll probably like and there are tons of good user and official playlists. That said I've gone through so much of the ambient drone stuff that Spotify has been taking me around in circles. Whenever I see something new I check it. Anyway, so I tried that site clicked on "deep ambient" then pulse and edge and the playlists immediately took me to stuff that sounded good but that I haven't heard before so first impression is thumbs up.

[innerspaceboy]

Awesome, OccultHawk! Glad to hear it!

Whenever I set out to explore a new genre I start with RateYourMusic's all-time toplist for the genre. And in fact I compiled their top 40 ambient drone albums just a few hours ago, so you're in good company.

Once I've exhausted the standards and read related articles and books I go off the beaten path and explore user-generated RYM lists. Selecting an album or artist featured on the top list brings you to their biography or album summary page and there are links to all user lists featuring that selection. There I can explore the next degree of separation and find some great material.

Thanks for having a look at the site!

[Tristan_Geoff]

I've known about the site for a while but I've found it's genres to be sometimes a bit lacking; with some genres being inaccurate, some being a little overreaching (is deep orgcore really necessary?), and some being absent entirely (such as jazz rap). Also, the artists contained in really specific genres are usually inaccurate.

Other than that, I've found the site useful overall and certainly interesting. I've gotten lost in it for hours before looking and listening to all the niche genres.

[MicShazam]

Haven't used the site before but it sounds like I might very well get something out of it. Similar discovery websites have shown me a lot of interesting artists over the years.

[Neapolitan]

I stumbled across it once looking for something and forgot how I found it. Thanks for posting the site.

[innerspaceboy]

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I stumbled across it once looking for something and forgot how I found it. Thanks for posting the site.

My pleasure! So glad it's getting some love.