Color Coded Music

Instead of the traditional black notes on white pages, some students are now being taught to recognize the color 'instead of' or 'along with' the location of the notes on the sheet. I think this is a bit strange overall since given some general information on reading music, after knowing the key and tempo - all that would be needed to play any set of music is the spacing and the color... not the 'notes' or the lines.

Ironically, while coloring general text is not patented - the coloring of musical notes is under a US Patent due to it's use as a teaching emplimentation.

Musical Learning History v.2

Similar to the previous, this form of mapping included the relationship between the song order as shown through the continuous line in the center. Also, instead of showing the frequency of listening through the thickness of a line, this chart accents the actual band name with a larger font and darker opacity.

Musical Listening History v.1

An algorithmically generated visuallization based on statistical information provided by Last.fm software, more particular, every song listened to by a particular user over an 18 month period.

Each colored band represents a musical artist, progressing from left to right. The span of progression gets wider when listening is more frequent and skinnier when less. The hue of the artist is representing the time of the first listen by that user. Cooler colors are those who were listened to over a long period of time while warmer colors are more recently added.