Did any of you notice this website before? http://www.musicstructure.com/examples/artists/art\_56.html And is it that interesting or even understandable for musicians? And can someone explain me what it's about???
Substance songs music structure!
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that looks like rocket science stuff, i know i cant read or even understand it...isnt that just like the eq of the whole song?
Seems to me that it's more oriented towards music-interested scientists than musicians. From what I can decode, the graphs are a way to identify structural similarities in a song (i.e., where the chorus is etc.). As the explaination says: "Time runs both horizontally and vertically. Low values (blue) indicate similarity, high values (red) indicate dissimilarity. Zero equals equivalence (zero distance). Repeated blue diagonal streaks, or repeated blue blocks, in a row or column indicate repeated material (such as a main theme, verse or chorus)."
Research like this may be useful when we want to indentify songs using computers. For example in applications like copy-protection and monitoring radio ratings (a'la Nielsen).
From an engineering point of view, it's interesting to read about how humans listen and interpret music. Search around for audio perception.
/TLV
And the really funny thing is...
When you click on Ceremony you get THIS:
This sort of stuff really appeals to me. May even design a record sleeve for one of my tracks based on the graphs.
Some people should be doing something better with their lives. I mean, who really gives a shit?