My first idea has to do with last.fm. This site tracks your played music with a program called audioscrobbler. I have built up a large statistic of what I listen to over the five years I've been on the site and it would be really fun and interesting to map it out. I think I could bring in some other elements to this project to make it more ambitious because this sounds like a fun idea and, other than sifting through 5 years of data, easy.
My second idea is mapping influences. The problem with this idea is that it has been done a million times so I have to put a different twist on it. I was thinking of looking at my music and see which bands have influenced me to start listening to another band.
Another idea, which sounds really interesting but isn't very fleshed out, is breaking down songs and looking at the different layers of sounds and instruments used in them.
Something dealing with how the music industry is shifting from record labels to online and self promotion. My inspiration was reading an article in the vanguard about how the music industry is being effected by downloading and bands being able to promote music without a label. Another inspiration is sellaband.com/ which allows artists to get money directly from fans to help produce their music. The fans also get a special prize depending on how much they donate.
hello will please post some inspiration and references for these ideas! they sound good!
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