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Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised

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84 pointsjanektm13 comments

That's very cool but it's still difficult to tell which part of the music is coming from which track. I personally would find it very helpful if mousing over a circle of a certain color would make all of the other tracks much quieter. That would make it a bit easier to understand than just seeing the visual feedback.

Agreed. Quite interesting first step. I'd bet a little more interactive version would be a lot of fun to play around with and a great iteration for something like this.

I kind of had the reverse reaction. I'm familiar enough with the Daft Punk corpus that I could easily tell where each piece came from and whatnot. However, while the timeline was pretty straightforward, I had difficulty connecting the center visualisation with the music. I understand that there's a ring for each track and... not much else. I don't suppose anybody could clarify that for me?

My take on it: volume = thickness; frequency = position around the ring, lowest to highest going clockwise, starting at the bottom.

It seems the volume is relative to the track's volume though, so some are quieter than they look like they would be. But I could be mis-hearing that part.

This is quite cunning, it appears to have the FFT pre-parsed as JS objects. It then actually plays back a single audio file (http://daftpunk.themaninblue.com/Cameron%20Adams%20-%20Defin... or ogg version), while using the js object data to represent the FFT data. e.g http://daftpunk.themaninblue.com/js/data_da_funk.js

A very convincing illusion of a 'realtime' mashup, but the audio API spec just isn't there cross browser to allow this in real time right now.

Ok I'm impressed that this loaded on my iPhone. Modern standards for the win.

I actually like http://mashupbreakdown.com/ better

I like it better too, if only because it has The Kleptones' A Night At The Hip-Hopera. However, this visualiser doesn't need Flash for audio playback, and the dancing FFTs are a nice touch.

"Mothership Reconnection" is technically a Thomas Bangalter track (one-half of Daft Punk). Everything else _is_ a Daft Punk track.

/hipster

Must listen for all Daft Punk fans.

Note: The FFT is using Flash.

I have FlashBlock installed, and the FFT worked just fine without requiring me to enable Flash.

http://themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2011/05/12/

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