The evolution of music

The infographic video of how music travels shows in slow steps how music has evoluted since 1800 from the West to the East and which influence it has on European music genres.

The infographic shows in a simple but effective way the evolution of different music genres in the world and guides the viewer through the usage of simple graphic usage, lines and arrows, which indicate movement, how the music has come from South America to the whole world. The usage of the dark and clear colours attracts our attention on the genres and the movement of their evolution.
This video is a must to watch to see in small steps where your favourite music has its origins.

My analyzation of the graphic with the tension wheel:

Figuration

The infographic is more figuration because the lines and world map tries to emphazise a way of movement. You can easily understand through the map and the line where which music genre had his origin.

Functionality

The graphic is functional because you can’t remove elements in the graphic to lose the content or its informative propose.

Density

The grapic is more dens then light, because through all the different music genre and their movement in the world it gets difficult to stay focused on the information it wanna give the viewer. Furthermore, there is little space left within the graphic, so the visual is very dens.

Mutlidimensional

The graphic is multidimensional because it not only focuses on the development of music. It also focuses on the individual influence each genre had in the world.

Familiarity

The graphic is familiar to the western culture, because we are used to follow lines in graphics and the World map is easily to identify.

Redundancy

The graphic is reduntant because the illustration gives as a lot of details about the development of music and the influence of the music genre. So the information is repeated in different ways.

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