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Billboard
http://lukedubois.com/billboard
"Billboard allows you to get a birds-eye view of the Billboard Hot 100 by
listening to all the #1 singles from 1958 through the millenium using a
technique I've been working on for a couple of years called time-lapse
phonography. The 857 songs used to m ake the piece are analyzed digitally and
a spectral average is then derived from the entire song. Just as a long
camera exposure will fuse motion into a single image, spectral averaging
allows us to look at the average sonority of a piece of music, howe ver long,
giving a sort of average timbre of a piece. This gives us a sense of the
average key and register of the song, as well as some clues about the
production values present at the time the record was made; for example, the
improvements in home ste reo equipment over the past fifty years, as well as
the gradual replacement of (relatively low-fidelity) AM radio with FM
broadcasting has had an impact on how records are mixed.
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