creativity/machine

City of Sound’s Dan Hill has a very interesting post that gathers together some of the possibilities for creating rhizomatic semantic maps of music, going far beyond the banality of the record industry’s constructions of “genres”.

Reflecting on the amazon.com linking systems, he asks, “how can we develop ‘Like this? Try this!’ beyond simple catalogue relationships?” It’s a thoughtful and well-referenced exploration, with graphic depictions of the kinds of cultural context maps he has in mind. There’s an interesting discussion developing out of it too.