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06-10-2004, 08:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Austin, TX | | | Coolest, site, ever
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http://www.musicplasma.com/
Enter your favorite band (or any band really) and then start clicking and wandering. It's a "visual search engine." Heroin and a half.
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06-10-2004, 08:33 AM
| | banned | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NYC, LI too | | | very cool! |
06-10-2004, 08:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Connecticut | | | Is there some sort of guide or legend? |
06-10-2004, 08:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hick Town in Oregon, USA | | Thanks! thats awsome 
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06-10-2004, 08:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Louisville Metro KY (america' | | This is pretty sweet  Thanks for sharing.
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06-10-2004, 10:53 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Whoa! King Crimson to Curtis Mayfield in two steps!
It seems a little strange in the implementation though. Many of the results fly off the edge of the page, and there's no way to scroll our to see them.  |
06-10-2004, 11:03 AM
| | stinkholier-than-thou | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Beaumont, Texarse | | Very, very cool. I'll even forgive it for some very strange calls... like putting Neil Young as the biggest, most important artist related to Talking Heads... and showing Warren Zevon's popularity to be about the same as David Bowie, Elvis Costello and R.E.M. -- combined!!!
Still, this could prove verrrrry addictive! 
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06-10-2004, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Whoa! King Crimson to Curtis Mayfield in two steps!
It seems a little strange in the implementation though. Many of the results fly off the edge of the page, and there's no way to scroll our to see them. | Just click anywhere in the general direction that you'd like to scroll, as long as you don't click on any other artist it will move the page.
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06-10-2004, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Sheep Man Just click anywhere in the general direction that you'd like to scroll, as long as you don't click on any other artist it will move the page. | Ah, cool! Thanks! |
06-10-2004, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Sarasota, FL | | | coolest site ever
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Originally Posted by Brendan http://www.musicplasma.com/
Enter your favorite band (or any band really) and then start clicking and wandering. It's a "visual search engine." Heroin and a half. | It's cool but talkbass is the coolest site ever! |
06-10-2004, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Hmmm. Seems like a lot of predetermined links. It seems less like they're giving me ideas of bands that influenced the one, and more bands that people assume are like the other.
For instance, when I put in Harry Connick, Jr., I should get back an area of jazz crooners, sure, but I should also get The Meters, James Booker, Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Stevie Wonder, and more, just on the funk side, then on the piano side there should be specific influences. I put in Tori Amos, and instead of naming people that really are like Tori, or influenced Tori, or the like, I got popular current names, like Alanis Morrissette, Coldplay, and John Maher. |
06-10-2004, 12:28 PM
| | | If you like that, you will also dig Visual Thesaurus
unfortunately though, while VT used to be 100% free, now they want your money, you can still play with it for free on the webpage, but it's like a demo version, eitherway, it's the exact same thing, just with words not bands.
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06-10-2004, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Indianapolis | | | Cool site, but I don't understand what the size of each artist's little orb is supposed to represent. The bigger the circle, the larger the influence? Or musical/historical importance? or record sales? Or what? And I can't tell if the differences in color are supposed to mean anything.
Neat idea though.
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06-10-2004, 02:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Indianapolis | | | Never mind, I just found the explanation under the help screen. The bigger the circle, the more influential or more representative of the musical style the artist is.
I wonder if this could be open-content -- users could add bands to the system and vote as to how influential/representative a group is?
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