Great Visualizers: Mike Deal charts The Beatles

January 18, 2010

New York-based designer Mike Deal has a great project going visualizing The Beatles.

Charting The Beatles - Mike Deal
Charting The Beatles - Mike Deal

I especially like this one. It tracks the keys of Beatles’ album tracks. You can see at a glance their poppier, more harmonic albums.

Charting The Beatles - Mike Deal
Charting The Beatles - Mike Deal
The project is an offshoot of an ongoing kaleidoscopic project at chartingthebeatles.com and on Flickr.

If it grabs you, head on over and take part. See you there!

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5 Comments

  1. Fábio
    Posted January 18, 2010 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

    Great stuff!

  2. Max Sang
    Posted January 19, 2010 at 12:26 pm | Permalink

    I’m already suspicious about the accuracy of this. The “song keys” graphic contains the non-existent B#/Cb. There is no key, or note, called B# or Cb (B to C is a semitone). It looks cool, but…

  3. Matt
    Posted January 19, 2010 at 5:57 pm | Permalink

    looks like the site got knocked off line!

  4. sam
    Posted January 19, 2010 at 10:52 pm | Permalink

    delightful.

    one small correction… the “song keys” graphic maps the keys of songs on each album; it doesn’t directly show information about what songs are in what keys. so i believe you actually cannot use it to see the “poppier, more harmonic numbers”, on the poppier, more harmonic albums.

    cheerio.

    [Thanks for the correct - David!]

  5. Joe Mahon
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    Max Sang wrote: “I’m already suspicious about the accuracy of this. The “song keys” graphic contains the non-existent B#/Cb. There is no key, or note, called B# or Cb (B to C is a semitone). It looks cool, but…”

    It actually says B/Cb. And while it sounds odd and counterintuitive, the key of C flat does exist in music theory.

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