Friday 7 March 2008

Music by mood

Burst is interesting. Instead of just taking the genre approach to tagging music, you can browse tag clouds of moods and instruments. Nice clean design too.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's a funny thing trying to characterize music according to mood ...

If I was feeling "adventurous" I would maybe dip into Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' .. or maybe just settle for some Metallica.

My point is, it's an inherently subjective pursuit to assign absract emotional states or attributes to musical forms.

Coincidentally though, I recently looked up a band on wikipedia and laughed when I saw the 'sound' of their music described as "heroic" ...