Assingment 3 Proposal

     Music has always been a very large part of my life and a major interest and inspiration for a lot of my work. Since middle school I started to deviate away from the classic rock hits my parents and the radio spoon fed me into obscure metal from all over the world that rarely sees the light of day. Artists experiment more and slowly new genres of music start to pop up the longer you spend away from the top 40. I want to explain a little of what that is to me. I want to show a visual map of the bands I listen to and the genres they are tied to. I might even be able to depict the 300 sub-genres of metal that I always joke about. The plan is to mostly use text and line to link everything together while showing connections on the amount of influence a band has to a genre based on visual thickness of the lines connecting them. While classification of music follows some rules, there is a lot of debate about specifics so most of my project could be objective depending on the view point.