Colour Meta Mixing
Colour Meta Mixing Posted on: 05.02.2011 by Len Lukawski I am not going to fully explain this toevening as I am way to tired. I will soon but I thought it would be interesting to see if anyone would want to use a colour based indexing system system for their tunes. Thoughts? SmiTTTen | |
| Len Lukawski 05.02.2011 | I am not going to fully explain this toevening as I am way to tired. I will soon but I thought it would be interesting to see if anyone would want to use a colour based indexing system system for their tunes. Thoughts? SmiTTTen |
| Len Lukawski 07.02.2011 | Here is what I was believeing. When I used to DJ using nothing more than 1210's I often found myself looking for that perfect track for the moment. There was also times when I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to, to flick through all the potential matches in my record box. Often a certain track would jump out based on it is dust sleeve or label. Fast forward to today and many people are using Traktor plus a bunch of other gear and their music selection is far larger than before. Most DJ platforms assist the DJ by providing, meta-data in the form is text labels. You can look search for a given artist, title, genre etc but I am not sure how helpful that is always going to be when browsing. The idea behind this method is that you define categories that are meaningful to you. In my example I am playing drum and bass and I have tracks that range from dark and nasty to straight up anthems. The first category in my example above defines the a scale for the warmth a track. Noisa's "Omissions" may be tagged as a BLACK track while The Green Man's Euphoria might be WHITE. There are colours in between that can be used accordingly. This example uses 4 colours, you may look at your collection differently and want 8 or 12. Another example is set placement. There are tracks that I know I like to use in certain parts of sets so I might tag them with RED for the beginning, AMBER for middle and GREEN for end. The categories, colours and steps you define is entirely up to you as music is subjective. By defining a personal system based on colours I believe we would end up with a more intuitive way for a person to browse through his/her collections quickly. I believe individuals would rapidly associate colours with personally defined attributes and more interestingly, combinations of colours. We rapidly assocaite patterns and colours with things so it's entirely possible to believe that someone might believe "Black, Blue, Red" is what I need right now. You will also notice that I included a key. This is just Camelot system but I believe it could also be used in this model. There are a number of ways this could be potentially implemented into the digital environment and all would take some coding and, unless a platform's UI could be tweaked, all would be less than ideal. At this point I just wanted to share an idea. In case anyone wants to kick off with the, "there's no substitute for knowing your records" comment, this is not designed as a replacement for that as it's a totally different methodology. I do believe defining a personalized colour-based tagging system that enables the shades of grey to be included brings a new level of granularity and feeling to the process. So now you believe I am good and mental..... |
| Yee Bedilion 07.02.2011 | I'd like a full elaboration on your little system you got going. |
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