Bob Kasenchak on Music, part 2

The Informed Life

Bob Kasenchak is a taxonomist and information architect at Factor. This is the second of two episodes with Bob that focus on what information architects can learn from music. The first conversation, which you can find in episode 116, focused on the structure of music itself. Today’s conversation focuses on how we can make music more findable — but there are insights here for anyone working with any type of information, not just music.

Show notes

• Bob Kasenchak - LinkedIn
• Bob Kasenchak (@taxobob) - Twitter
• Factor
• Google Images
• Shazam - Music Discovery, Charts & Song Lyrics
• Salt-N-Pepa - Wikipedia
• Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock album) - Wikipedia
• Prince (musician) - Wikipedia
• Peter Gabriel - Wikipedia
• Music Classical - Apple
• IDAGIO
• Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic - Apple
• Grammarly

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บท

1. Bob Kasenchak on Music, part 2 (00:00:00)

2. Information is contextually dependent (00:02:35)

3. Information encoded in music (00:07:38)

4. Encoding information in music (00:10:12)

5. Edge cases define the model (00:13:38)

6. Apple Music Classical (00:20:18)

7. Matching user mental models (00:27:46)

8. Designing complex search interfaces (00:31:37)

9. Genre: an insufficient human construct (00:37:47)

10. LLMs for music? (00:41:46)

11. Closing (00:47:54)