Music & InteractionVisualizations & Change in User Behavior Over Time

An Exploration by C. Aydincan Ataberk

Music in 60’s

Music in 60’s

This was the track.

Music in 60’s

And here is the control.

Music in 80’s

Music in 80’s

This was the track.

Music in 80’s

More control over the track has arrived.

Music in 80’s

And these two came later.Slightly little more control over the linear playlist.

Music in 80’s

Note this one.

Music in 80’s

Helped people “create” their own compilations.

Music in 80’s

And started the actual “sharing” of music.

After 80’s

After 80’s

Came this.

After 80’s

Play it in your head. You can do it.

Dub Dub Dub Dub Dada

After 80’s

Play it in your head. You can do it.

Dub Dub Dub Dub Dada

Tss Tss Tss Tss

And the most used graphical representation of the music

became a strait line.

The Music After 00’s

This is the track today.

The Music After 00’s

A single strait line, and a pointer that goes from A to B.

A B

The Music After 00’s

iTunes

Grooveshark

Youtube

The Music After 00’s

Now we have the freedom to jump wherever we like in a particular song.

A B

The Music After 00’s

A B

And we have these...

The Music After 00’s

A B

And these...

The Music After 00’s

A B

And even these...

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The Music After 00’s

A B

Even these...

User X Wrote: Oh... This song reminds me my good old school days :((User Y Wrote: Beautiful song... Love and peace from Athens!

The Music is the same.

What ever the genre,it is a 3 to 9 min track.

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User X Wrote: Oh... This song reminds me my good old school days :((

What we have now, crazy amount of control

over our music.

Consuming behavior,context of consumption,

time spent,interaction with the artist,

reach,being a fan,

being an artist,and even being famous,

has changed.

From this,

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User X Wrote: Oh...

to that.

What all this tells us?

Those times, we were listening to our favorite album for years.

The music was tangible and consumed over long time, slowly.

Enough time to develop a deeper emotional connection, not only with the music but also with the

object it self: the album.

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User X Wrote: Oh... This song reminds me my good old school days :((

Intangibility of today’s music,

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User X Wrote: Oh... This song reminds me my good old school days :((

and the pace of consumption, makes us dissatisfied.

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You probably hear a lot of“Music is dead man! Deal with it.”

But things are not as bad as it may look.

Now, how i can describe music as:

It is socially instant and radically open.

This is where YouTube, and others come to the scene.

But for the next time.

until thentwitter me: @aydincan

blogger me: human-after-all.com

Thank you.

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