Rachel Ratner’s Cartographic Study of Musical Incest is a giant (60 sq ft) map of the connections between Seattle bands, from Nirvana to Fleet Foxes to scores of bands that you’ve probably never heard of unless you’re an Emerald City local. If you are, you can also see the full map (the above is a detail) at the Expo 87 art show next week.
Also, I’d love to see one of these for the Boston music scene? Anybody game?
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I am a sucker for data visualizations. So it’ll come as no surprise, therefore, that I was all over very small array‘s pair of information graphics of Pitchfork’s “The 100 Best Tracks of 2008.” Like all good visualizations, it makes you think about the data, like the fact that songs with male lead vocals outnumber those with female lead vocals 2:1.
MP3: Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire [buy]
Jez Burrows, of graphic design collective Evening Tweed, has produced an infographic based on Destroyer’s Rubies. Says Burrows:
Asked to respond to the word banausic, I chose to take the most grandiose, willfully complex thing I knew and express it as mechanically and cold [sic] as I could manage. ‘Destroyer’s Rubies’ by Destroyer was that thing.
Burrows transcribed the entire album and used the data to produce a limited-edition print, which is now available for preorder. It’s beautiful, if a little pricey to consider using as dorm-room decor. He’s also announced that it’s the first of the ‘Modern Listener’s Guide’ series of indie-rock infographics; I can’t wait to see the rest.
Buy the poster here.
Previously: Release notes: Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams; Concert notes: Destroyer; Got a question for Dan Bejar?
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