Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Visualising Music (31 Jan 2005) The identification of the similarity between different musical styles and different pieces has a more practical interest. Let's imagine that we would like to find music similar to that of a particular performer or band. The name of a singer doesn't give us a clue if we haven't heard of her/him previously. Nevertheless different types of music share common features in many cases. Musicplasma presents a map where performers are grouped by ages and styles, linked by lines, so that the closer two performers are in the map the more they share a common style or pertain to the same musical age. Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=161&lang=2 Read 164 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: How staff look for documents     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy