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Visualizing song lyrics with Graphviz

11/23/2006

I decided to play with Graphviz this Thanksgiving weekend and cooked up lyrical graphs of some of my favorite songs. Here is an example of a Day in the Life:



You can view the rest in my Flickr set.

I am interested in comparing some of these alternative song diagrams to more radio/poppy ones. I might even try looking at all the tracks of an album too.

Note, I am leaving all the analysis to your interpretation. After all, music is an art. I am merely curious if it is possible to visualize a possible "hit?"

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