In times of unlimited and instant access to a good proportion of all music ever produced, how can we provide new ways to discover new music that fits our taste?

I tried to find some alternative solutions, that reach beyond the usual list views by visualising all artists that a user follows on soundcloud in a force directed graph and connect the artists that have a following relation themselves.

The applied physics clusters artists with a similar musical style due to the probability for them to follow each other. The interactive visualisation allows the user to listen to the latest tracks of a selected artist in the mesh, and generate new visualisations based not on their own profile, but the profile of a selected artist.

The indent is to enable the user to go on basically endless musical journeys through the soundcloud profiles of related and probably new artists, listen to their music, and save them by following or liking individual tracks.

You can try it with your own soundcloud profile over here Unfortunatelly, Soundcloud stopped the registration of their api.