If I was to create a system that showed proximity between songs, it would need to have a modular framework within which difference could be expressed. I started to experiment with mapping the data around a circle (which conveniently alludes to a staple of visual language about music- the disc format and simultaneously, a clock, which would allow me to represent values against time in an easily understandable way), using sets of lines radiating out from a centre point with varying lengths to show different values. I tried several variations on this theme and received positive feedback on some of the results. However the capacity for these symbols to show difference was questionable, each one was too blobby, too indistinct which would make difference between them hard to fathom without studying them.
The system needed to be more immediate and intuitive than this, with the viewer hopefully being able to spot differences instantly.
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