Bowie S-S-S-Similarities

Team

Mike Mandel

Description

I used the Musically Intelligent Machines autotagging api to analyze and tag all of David Bowie's music.  Then I lined it up in order and calculated the similarity between every 10-second clip and every other 10-second clip in terms of the automatically generated descriptions.  Then I made some pretty pictures of this similarity matrix.  You can listen to clips in question by clicking on the matrix and you can zoom in and out and re-center the view.

 

Zoomed all the way out

Tighter

Tighter

Tightest

 

Links

http://musicallyintelligent.com/api

http://mr-pc.org/bowie

Tools, Platforms and APIs Used

Python

Numpy / Scipy

Musically Intelligent Machines autotagging API