As per L.M.’s comment, here is some evidence of the amazing Gino Vannelli, who no musical connoisseur should be ashamed to have in their collection.
Amazing. People do gotta move.
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On a somewhat-related note, I recently joined Stumbleupon for all my internet time-wasting needs and have, well, stumbled upon, some crazy things that run the gambit from truly awful to completely amazing.
One of the more amazing things was Musicovery‘s online interactive radio. You select a quadrant on their interactive player from a spectrum of positive to dark and energetic to calm and the player gives you a song, colour-coded according to genre and then maps out that song’s relationship to other songs in the same area of the spectrum (you have to play around with it to actually understand it).
I’ve ended up discovering amazing and terrible music, but the whole thing got me to thinking about whether or not you can really classify something as intangible as music’s tonal quality into a four square quadrant. Or whether you can accurately colour-code genres.
Jeremy Bailey’s Video Paint 3.0 program similarly tries to colour-code sound, but he at least points out that such an endeavour is totally constructed and arbitrary (in his creepy Bob Ross-inspired narrative voice) and purposely made pink the colour for the lowest vocal tones, “just to shake things up.”
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