open day 07 OCTOBER 2011
FRANCESCO FAGGIANO
Talking about music is not as easy as it sounds. I have spent much time to browse, learn and practice this form of expression for many years but I always have found a limit preventing me from understanding the complexity of this phenomenon.
MUSIC EVOLUTION (D minor)
Tracing an evolutionary line of music phenomenon. I want to explore and trace a music evolution to make this complexity clear. This means I must analyze its variations, i.e. its styles and genres, developed throughout its history.
MUSIC GENRE MAP OR TAXONOMY OR VISUALIZATION GOOGLE GOOGLE SEARCH SEARCH
I’M I’M FEELING FEELING LUCKY LUCKY
Music taxonomies on the internet. I started a research about music visualization, trying to find out how music is told and the actual dimension of genre problem.
There’s no unique method. The music industry has long created music taxonomies for its own needs. No effort, to our knowledge, has been done to unify these taxonomies, and indeed the task would be quite considerable.
BLUES
ROCK
REGGAE
Actual taxonomies purpose. Several taxonomies of musical genres have been designed by Internet music retailers. These taxonomies are all aimed at helping users navigate in music catalogues using a topdown approach.
It’s hard to sort unstructured data but... I want to establish a method to follow as closely as possible actual considerations of music.
AMAZON
ALLMUSIC
DISCOGS
RHAPSODY
RATE YOUR MUSIC
WIKIPEDIA
183
681
332
458
1086
1787
First step: the need of a Data basin. No site contains a complete list of musical genres and styles. Looking at most famous music databases I obtained an exellent list of results, cleaning up terms and repetition.
I NEED TO ORGANIZE
2970 UNIQUE TERMS
Second step: choosing topics of evaluation. Currently the classification of music consists in detecting certain stylistic, chronological, geographical, cultural and sociological characteristics of each musical expression.
REGION
PERIOD
INSTRUMENT
ETHNIC
SUBREGION
DECADE
USE
CULTURE
COUNTRY
YEARS
LISTENER
PLACE
YEAR
MACROGENRE
or Continent UN classification Political classification Town or Area
LATITUDE/LONGITUDE Geographic localization
hystorical classification 10 years range Decade sub-range Starting year
Technical classification Aim of the music
Ethnic group origin Cultural/Geographical origin
Philip Tagg classification The main genre related
TAG
Still undefined classification
Third step: choosing parameters for classification. Each of these areas consider some parameters to better characterize any single musical style, describing it from the general to the particular.
LAST.FM TAG
REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Other parameters for further development. I selected some other parameters that I need for further utilization in the second phase of the project.
1st
COLLECT
MAKE DISTINTION ORGANIZE STYLES ORGANIZE GENRES
2nd
VISUALIZE
IMPORT THE DATA CREATE THE NETWORK STUDY THE LAYOUT
3rd
DEVELOP
COMING SOON
The long road to the taxonomy. By now my work will follow some basic step to reach its completion.
AFROBEAT
1967
LAGOS, NIGERIA
FELA KUTI YORUBA
CONTEMPORARY FOLK
Better if dynamic. I would my taxonomy dynamic, and available for further developments.