This article was taken from the August 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
Artists Rob Hansen and Garrick Dartnell can turn your playlist into art. Their startup, MusicDNA, combines the waveform of a song -- its musical fingerprint -- with compressed frames from its music video to produce striking visualisations (top, Calvin Harris's "Summer", below, Iggy Azalea's "Fancy"). "You can pick out similarities and differences between artists just by <span class="s1">looking at it," says Dartnell, 22 -- and some artists are easier to distinguish than others. "You can tell if it's Queens of the Stone Age or Katy Perry."
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