Project in Digital Humanities - Music By Color

University project code for creating the following result - https://rappayuv.wixsite.com/digital-humanities-p

In this project, we analyzed over 60,000 music album covers in order to identify patterns regarding the colors used.

We analyzed the colors according to 5 main album's criteria:

1. Year of release
2. Music genre
3. Artist
4. Album rating (by X amount of reviewers in amazon-store)
5. Album sale price

Working Method

• we downloaded a database from https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg/mard that includes 66,000 albums covers.
• we created a new structure that encompasses the relevant data - filtering out approximately 50,000 album structures that were lacking crucial information.
• we extracted the color samples from the remaining data with python imaging library and created a visual depiction of palettes with mathplotlib.

Code

the code is not well oranaized but it includes all parts and outputs that were shown in the Wix website - https://rappayuv.wixsite.com/digital-humanities-p