Comments on: Musicplasma, Or What Do Kid Rock and Radiohead Have In Common? http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2005/05/musicplasma-or-what-do-kid-rock-and-radiohead-have-in-common/ Welcome to CoFactors, the research + development crucible for Catalyst Group Design. Here, we expand and codify our observations and experience independent of clientdriven situations. Our position as consultants gives us an exceptionally broad view of the Web and interface design issues + culture. Feel free to link to our blog, send feedback, download white papers or even to read about developments in our own business. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:41:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Randy Thompson http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2005/05/musicplasma-or-what-do-kid-rock-and-radiohead-have-in-common/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Randy Thompson Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:09:15 +0000 http://www.catalystgroupdesign.com/cofactors/?p=71#comment-48 This is an obscure band I saw at Unbiversity of Texas. Still not sure what they are about. This is an obscure band I saw at Unbiversity of Texas. Still not sure what they are about.

]]> By: jon http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2005/05/musicplasma-or-what-do-kid-rock-and-radiohead-have-in-common/comment-page-1/#comment-41 jon Thu, 26 May 2005 17:59:07 +0000 http://www.catalystgroupdesign.com/cofactors/?p=71#comment-41 cool post. i have played around with various version of this interface. what i like about it is the ability to find "related" artists in a visual way. i find that it works best with the more obscure bands. for example, i typically use "Prefab Sprout" a fairly obscure, but distictive sounding brit-folk band. the "recommendations" that are presented based on the other bands -- and thier relative location, help to identify other bands that i might like. what is really interesting is the navigation / interaction that allows you to "re-center" the map by selecting another band. so, if i like "Prefab Sprout" i can see related bands -- many of which i know. but by selecting one of these bands, like "China Crisis" can see how other bands related to both CC and PS (1 degree of seperation?). overall, i find the site has limited appeal for a key reason -- they offer little information to help you assess the bands. while a discography is great -- it does not help you form an opinion or assessment of any new "finds" that you might uncover. this can only be done thru editorial descriptions of the band's sound or by providing clips to listen to key songs. having to go thu amazon for this content make the site much less useful (to me). cool post. i have played around with various version of this interface. what i like about it is the ability to find “related” artists in a visual way. i find that it works best with the more obscure bands. for example, i typically use “Prefab Sprout” a fairly obscure, but distictive sounding brit-folk band. the “recommendations” that are presented based on the other bands — and thier relative location, help to identify other bands that i might like. what is really interesting is the navigation / interaction that allows you to “re-center” the map by selecting another band. so, if i like “Prefab Sprout” i can see related bands — many of which i know. but by selecting one of these bands, like “China Crisis” can see how other bands related to both CC and PS (1 degree of seperation?).

overall, i find the site has limited appeal for a key reason — they offer little information to help you assess the bands. while a discography is great — it does not help you form an opinion or assessment of any new “finds” that you might uncover. this can only be done thru editorial descriptions of the band’s sound or by providing clips to listen to key songs. having to go thu amazon for this content make the site much less useful (to me).

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