Influences

This idea directly borrows from Fernanda Viegas’s idea of a Wind Map. I’ve attempted to adapt that idea by making my representation audiovisual as opposed to purely visual, as audiovisual is better suited to the content of my map - music.

I was also influenced by Lozano-Hemmer’s Pulse Room. The pulse room’s data input is one of the most personal things there could be - one’s heartbeat. And yet, every heartbeat is lost in the cacophony of all the other heartbeats, thus discouraging an observer from picking out any one heartbeat to focus on. One’s musical taste is deeply personal as well. Even so, by taking something so personal and aggregating it with so many other people’s tastes, Music Map aspires to a similar effect as the Pulse Room.