Musical Tube Map
[crossposted from Hype]
A couple of days ago, Teflon posted this link on Hypothetical. It's about a history of recent Western music, overlayed onto the Tube map. Detail:
(You can download the whole thing here, or buy it as a poster from Transport for London, something I'm considering doing).
I think it's ace. Obviously, it reminds one of Simon Patterson's The Great Bear. But I always hated the Great Bear, simply because he'd made no effort to make the intersections make sense - even comparatively easy ones like footballers/philosophers (Camus, or possibly Cantona), philosophers/engineers (Wittgenstein), etc. There is, as far as I can see, no attempt to make it a map of anything, or to say anything about the people he mentions, or to understand anything about human history or knowledge in anything more than the most trivial way. It's a colossal wasted opportunity, and it makes me angry that he's put so little effort into it, when with a bit more thought it could have been fantastic. The musical one's much better. Though I'm a bit dubious about putting Delia Derbyshire way out on the edges of Classical rather than linking her with electronica, or putting Gershwin nowhere near jazz...
A couple of days ago, Teflon posted this link on Hypothetical. It's about a history of recent Western music, overlayed onto the Tube map. Detail:
(You can download the whole thing here, or buy it as a poster from Transport for London, something I'm considering doing).
I think it's ace. Obviously, it reminds one of Simon Patterson's The Great Bear. But I always hated the Great Bear, simply because he'd made no effort to make the intersections make sense - even comparatively easy ones like footballers/philosophers (Camus, or possibly Cantona), philosophers/engineers (Wittgenstein), etc. There is, as far as I can see, no attempt to make it a map of anything, or to say anything about the people he mentions, or to understand anything about human history or knowledge in anything more than the most trivial way. It's a colossal wasted opportunity, and it makes me angry that he's put so little effort into it, when with a bit more thought it could have been fantastic. The musical one's much better. Though I'm a bit dubious about putting Delia Derbyshire way out on the edges of Classical rather than linking her with electronica, or putting Gershwin nowhere near jazz...