Trend Spotting in Music This presentation was created for a special topics course (GD492) at North Carolina State University. It is the mid-semester proposal for a mobile component within a service ecology that enables a specific group of people to learn a complex process. The service focuses on developing skills, rather than managing information—it performs analogously as training wheels, rather than crutches. Focusing on skill development implies that the person engages with the design conditions in order to learn how, what, and why to do something autonomously (without prolonged reliance on the design). The presentation includes an overview of the service ecology, user assessment, and specific design objectives for moving forward with creating a prototype and working demonstration. All material is copyright 2010. Please contact the manager of the slideshare account for questions and permissions. Process work can be found at www.seedandsprout.com/s10_gd492

1. finding
music
logan sayles

2. the search

6. pandora +
close,
but no cigar... last.fm +
ghostly international +

7. lastFM +
“i’ll ask the audience regis.”
ethnography of an expert

8. hypemachine +
twitter +

9. this application will teach its user how to
consistently locate new, and good music,
and have a better understanding of what
makes good tunes good and bad tunes
bad.

10. goals
1. know if music is good

11. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good

12. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music

13. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it

14. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it
5. plan and create a playlist based on genre & cultural knowledge of systems of value

15. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it
5. plan and create a playlist based on genre & cultural knowledge of systems of value
6. select and find appropriate, new, good music

16. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it
5. plan and create a playlist based on genre & cultural knowledge of systems of value
6. select and find appropriate, new, good music

17. storyboarding

18. music
suggestion
- parameters
-personal
-geographic
-environmental
- user generated ratings/tags system
-song suggestion/music dna
based on user generated “survey”
cloud,

19. a reader/feed
- streams r.s.s. feeds
- favorites
-suggestions
- allows for browsing and web streaming
- user generated ratings/tags system