What is this?

Spotify is a music streaming platform which connects users to over thirty million individual tracks and thousands of unique artists. With so much music to sift through, Spotify has built a system for classifying music that reacts to cultural and acoustic information. Genres emerge based on sound, description, and user interaction. Over 1,400 genres have been assigned to artists in order to capture their individual style. Needless to say, there are some pretty weird genres out there.

Chromatic Genre Explorer is part of an ongoing project to visualize and find trends in music using Spotify's API. For a given genre, each artist was queried and the dominant colour from each of their albums were recorded. These colours were averaged and scaled, creating a beautiful representation of musical diversity.

To find out more and to follow this project, visit the GitHub Repository.