Music visualization

Datasets and APIs

Datasets

• Million Song Dataset: "a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks" probably one of the best dataset if you want to visualize something about music.
  • last.fm dataset
  • An example paper: Evolution of the informational complexity of contemporary western music
• Chords + Lyrics dataset from Kolchinsky et al. - Paper
• Music sampling: https://www.whosampled.com

APIs

• Spotify API
• Gracenote
  • https://github.com/cweichen/pygn

Examples

• The shape of song - visualizing repetition in music.

• Music animation machine

• lightnote - basic music theory with interactive visualization and sonification.