Experiment with music through Spotify Apps. Browse through popular apps like Rolling Stone, last.fm, Pitchfork and more and engage with experiments beyond pressing the play button. Brought to you by sensesic.com

1. Spotify Apps x20
20 Apps. 20 Experiments

2. Soundrop
Listen to songs in social rooms featuring your friends or
strangers. Create or join a room with a theme (90’s songs
or Ozzy Osbourne) and inhabitants of that room pick
songs they want played + everyone votes on what they
want to collectively hear next

3. sensesic experiment
old music friends
1. You remember that buddy you used to talk music with – the two of you had a
friendship that bloomed from music > your tastes were similar and you
respected one another for that reason > but now you don’t really talk to one
another? Time to rekindle and use Soundrop to do so
1. Create a private listening room with Soundrop app on Spotify – call it anything
you want
1. Locate that friend via Facebook or another means and say hello again and
invite them to join a private room telling them you always respected their taste
and want to exchange new favorite songs
1. Observe whether or not you and that old friend still have the same musical
taste. If you do = great. If you don’t = kindly shut down the room

4. Fuse
Takes one theme and builds a playlist for that theme. For
example (on President’s Day they built a playlist that
contained only songs about Presidents). Rainy Days Playlist
had all songs with “Rain” somewhere in the title

5. sensesic experiment
Music Day ___ (insert Year)
1. Pick a day coming up on your calendar in which you will have some time to
observe and create a small playlist. We are going to turn a typical day > into a
day you will always remember musically. We recommend picking a typical day
because this experiment will make that day mean something to you.
1. On the day you selected > wake up and immediately observe the themes in
your day – build a 15+ song playlist throughout your day based on the themes
you encounter. So if you wake up trip on something in your room > search for
a song you feel describes that tripping incident. By the end of the day you will
have a complete playlist describing your typical day
1. Building this playlist may actually show you how atypical each day is if you
pay more attention and you will always have this list to refer to in the future >
pass it on to your kids etc.

6. Top 10
Create Top 10 playlists and share + compare those lists
with friends. These 10 playlists are stored within the Top 10
app and users can compare their top 10 to lists to others
(strangers that use the app as well

7. sensesic experiment
Top 10 peer critics
1. Think of an artist/band that you are passionate about and make sure some of
your friends are ALSO passionate about them
2. Use Top 10 and create a Top 10 list of songs from that artist/band you have in
mind > but don’t actually pick your top 10 – pick the worst 10 for this
experiment and proclaim them as your top 10– you can always go back and
change it
1. The Top 10 app allows you to share your list on social networks. Post the Top
10 to your Facebook or other networks and Tag the friends that are also
passionate about that artist/band. Odds are they will not agree with your Top
10 (worst 10)
2. Now wait…and count the # of times your friends argue with you. If you get
more than 10 disgruntled comments – you win!

8. Rolling Stone
Provides a collection of RS exclusive lists from artists – for
example (Tom Petty’s favorite Elvis songs). Also contains the
mag’s top songs and album reviews with the ability to play
each right from their interface (Rolling Stone recommends)

9. sensesic experiment
Tom Petty’s Bad Taste
1. As mentioned in the previous slide the RS app has a lot of playlists that were
built by mainstream artists like Tom Petty. You can read the title of these
playlists within their app landing page. Pick one of the titles so for example
“Tom Petty’s top 50 Elvis songs” DO NOT LOOK AT THE LIST – just the title
1. Using the “playlist” function in Spotify > create your own “Top 50 Elvis songs”
and you don’t have to do a full 50 if that seems like too much – just do your
top 10 or 20
1. Compare your Elvis taste to that of Tom Petty and see if you and Tom agree
OR agree to disagree. Wouldn’t it be cool to see Tom’s top 20 almost match
with yours – “Tom’s Cool,” you’d say
1. You can use ANY of the Rolling Stone playlists for this experiment – Petty is
just an example

10. Hot or Not
Powered by Warner Music Group – Hot
or Not is what you think it is > you are
played a random song and you vote
whether or not the song is HOT or NOT.
Your votes accumulate points for you

11. sensesic experiment
hot streak
1. Use Hot or Not and select “ALL” as the stream option along the top navigation
of the app. You will be played random songs (some you will know and some
you will not know)
1. Listen to each song and vote on whether you think it is HOT or NOT – but
don’t necessarily judge it based on your OWN opinion – for this experiment
we are looking to get on a hot streak
1. Your goal is to vote 10 times in a row and have your vote agree with the
overall voter population all 10 times. The 10 HAS to be in a row – if you get 10
agreeable choices in 11 trys you are good… but not on a “hot streak”

12. We are Hunted
Provides a portfolio that has an aesthetically
pleasing layout of top 100 tracks from up and
coming artists and mainstream artists. Updated
twice daily, they are hunting down new music for
you to experience – each song can be played from
their interface

13. sensesic experiment
hunting the Nostradamus underdog
1. Monitor the “up and coming” top 100 chart from 70-100 and pick 2 songs. One
that you love and want to see succeed > and one that you anticipate will be
loved by the general listeners over time that you don’t care for
1. Keep an eye on the two songs for the preceding two weeks and cheer on the
underdog song that you LOVE > hoping that its top 100 rank is better than
that of your other choice
1. Check in each day to see how your prediction if fairing. If your song ranks
higher at the end of two weeks > you win!

14. tunewiki
The ultimate karaoke agent for Spotify. Watch lyrics
stream across the screen as you play songs within the
engine. You don’t even have to scroll as the lyrics scroll
automatically based on the timing of the song being
played.

15. sensesic experiment
help a tunewiki out
1. The app has a plethora of songs covered that align the lyrics with the timing
they are sung – this way the scrolling is accurate and doesn’t confuse any
users – however > there are songs that need to be timed appropriately and
tunewiki has the tools for you to time the song yourself if it isn’t timed properly
1. Search for some songs that you love but are not sure they will be mainstream
enough to already have a perfectly timed tunewiki scrolling experience. Listen
to the song within the app and engineer the timing of the lyrics for all tunewiki
users to use
1. Their directions are simple and the tool is easy to use > you just press the
space bar when you hear the words being sung
1. Now you will forever know that you engineered the timing of the lyrics for a
song you love

16. Pitchfork
Three tabs In this app are all fueled by the popular
music site.
-Best New Albums (any album with a high review)
-Album Reviews (all PF album reviews)
-Playlists (best songs of 2000, best songs of 2011, etc.)

17. sensesic experiment
best/worst albums
1. Pitchfork rates albums 1-10. If you interact with their app and select “album
reviews” along the top navigation you will see the latest albums with their
review rating in BOLD.
1. Find an album that received a low rating – in the eyes of Pitchfork – anything
in the 5 or lower range is not very respectable
2. Listen to the songs on the ablum and pick out the best song that you feel
HELPED the final rating and the worst song that you feel HURT the final rating
1. Now create a playlist “the best and the worst of (x) band” – you now have 1
playlist for your “best/worst” album collection. Do this with future releases to
share with friends your best/worst choices

18. Moodagent
Aggregates playlists for particular mood
types – happy, angry, sensual, tender
and more. Pick a mood and they provide
a playlist that adheres to that mood. You
can also pop a playlist into their interface
and it will judge the overall mood of that
playlist

19. sensesic experiment
how do you feel lately?
1. Within Spotify you can create playlists. I create a variety of playlists but one I
continuously visit is the list that I have recently “starred” > I star tracks when I like them
and that star list is what I listen to the most for obvious reasons > it contains my favorite
songs at the present time. In this experiment we will determine how you have been
feeling lately according to your most popular listens.
1. Open the Moodagent app and you’ll notice near the bottom they have an area where
you can drag and drop any playlist and Moodagent will determine the mood of that
playlist for you.
1. You can’t drag your “starred” songs > but you can put the top 10-20 songs you have
starred and put them in a playlist OR you can just use an existing playlist that contains
random tunes you often listen to.
1. Drag and drop your playlist into the designated area and get a feel for how you are
feeling lately according to Moodagent’s music analysis
2. If you are new to Spotify > use the service for 1-2 months and then try this

20. Filtr
Focuses on the music discovery of others.
The Filtr app’s primary feature is how it
can curate playlists based on your
friend’s Facebook Band Likes. It will also
create playlists based on your own
Spotify listening habits

21. sensesic experiment
is he/she really going out with him?
1. Even if you are in a relationship, you either HAD or still have a crush on
someone that you sometimes peek at on Facebook. I’m sure in less than 4
seconds you know who that someone is
1. Within the Filtr homepage, there is a box that asks you to “create a playlist
based on all 3” and has randomly selected 3 of your Facebook friends > you
need to create a playlist based solely on that person you crush – so find them
and select them
1. Filtr will build a playlist based on their tastes – listen through some of it
1. 1st > determine if you still like them after listening to their musical taste. 2nd
keep that information pocketed for a conversation piece next time you
“happen” to run into them

22. Radiofy.se
The app supplies playlists of
popular songs from Swedish
radio stations

23. sensesic experiment
Swedish groove
1. Are you not curious to hear what’s happening on Swedish Radio? How their
taste is compared to your country? This app allows you to investigate. Access
the app by visiting radiofy.se – use translate by Google if needed
1. Listen to the playlists within the app and compare + contrast them to the top
billboard playlists from your country or your personal taste. This is more for
the curious mind
1. If you are from Sweden you can still participate > get the app within Spotify
and judge the accuracy of their representation of your country’s musical taste

24. Billboard Top
Charts
Billboard is the Nielsen Media of music rankings > Ranking
songs across genres by popularity based on a variety of
inputs from radio rotation to album sales and more. The
Spotify app is a collection of those rankings in playlist
format

25. sensesic experiment
a billboard full of sentences
1. You’ll notice the landing page for the Billboard app on Spotify features their
overall rankings and also breaks down the rankings for specific genres. My
current landing page features 5 lists – Hot 100, Billboard 200, R&B-Hip-Hop,
Country and Rock lists.
1. Right now, the Billboard chart is full of song titles that are about relationships
and/or partying. Your goal is to form a complete sentence using one song title
from each of the 5 lists. And form that sentence to represent relationships and
partying – that part shouldn’t be difficult
1. Yes…you can use commas and obviously the sentence may not be the best
sentence you ever heard > but give it a shot.
1. If you can’t seem to build a sentence right now > give it a few weeks and try it
again

26. Digster
Provides playlists, a LOT of playlists. Playlists based on your
lifestyle settings – “going out’ “relaxing” etc. > playlists
based only on the producer > playlists based on festival
lineups > playlists based on countries > the list goes on

27. sensesic experiment
kanye sampled again?
1. Open Digster and select “Behind the Music” along the top navigation. You
may have to scroll through a bit but one of the icons is for “Music Kanye West
has sampled”> Click that option
1. The creator of the playlist built it using Kanye Songs with samples and their
respective original version where each sample was pulled from. It is
interesting to hear the originals of Kanye’s sampling collection > use this list
order as your example
1. Think of an artist that samples quite a bit – hip-hop artists and electronica
often sample so your job should be easy if you choose a hip-hop artist. Find 5
of their songs that you feel contain samples
1. Find the 5 original versions of the samples used within the Spotify engine.
Create your own “Behind the Music” playlist that plays 5 songs with samples
accompanied by their originals back to back

28. Songkick
The complete live music calendar
that gives you a list of all the
concerts coming to your area from
the bands you listen to on Spotify
and follow on Songster

29. sensesic experiment
songkickart
1. If you have used Spotify for a few months or more and visit the Songkick app, it will
have a list of upcoming concerts for you based on the music you listened to. If you just
started using Spotify use it for a week or so and come back to the Spotify app. You are
going to create an art piece using the Songkick app.
1. If you live in a bigger city with a variety of music venues this may be more interesting >
but no matter where you live you can create this piece – you can even create one
based on a city you wish you lived in or one your favorite artists frequent.
1. Take the list of concerts that Spotify has supplied based on your favorite bands and
build a map of the venues within Google Maps. You can do this by searching the
venues within Google Maps and visualizing their respective plot points. Full-screen that
map and take a screenshot.
1. Using a photo editor you are going to add in the artists names and dates next to the
venues they will be playing at. Eventually print off the map you made and try to attend
all the shows > you will have your own map of the concerts you went to in the summer
of 2012.

30. The Legacy Of
Explore the complete catalogs of
some of the world’s most iconic and
celebrated musicians. Features bios,
discographys, and playlists of
influencers and followers from each
legendary artist

31. sensesic experiment
followers the leader
1. As stated in the summary slide, The Legacy Of features playlists of artists they feel the
iconic artist influenced called “followers”> meaning they followed their style, songs,
and/or personalities. For example, The Legacy Of may state that Michael Jackson
influenced Justin Timberlake and therefore Timberlake’s music would be in the
“followers” playlist
1. The app changes artists each week but pick one of the 4 featured on the home page of
the app. Right now there is Boy Dylan, Hall & Oats, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Miles
Davis. Don’t click on any of the artists – only look at the 4. Pick 1 of those artists and
write a list of 10 artist you believe were influenced the most by the one you picked
2. After writing your 10 – navigate to the “followers” section within the artist your chose
1. If 5 of the 10 artists you selected were featured in the ”followers” list provided by The
Legacy Of, you can consider yourself an expert > if 4 – you still rock > if 3 – you’re
respected > if 2 or less, try another artist > if 0 maybe don’t try another artist

32. Classify
Engage with Classical music. Classify contains an
expansive collection of classical playlists organized by
instrument preferences, composers, mood, time
period and more. A much needed app for someone
who wants to listen to classical music but doesn’t
know where to start

33. sensesic experiment
down the aisle
1. One of the occasions classical music surfaces most is the wedding
celebration. So let’s have some fun with this
1. Whether you are married or not, this experiment will give you a means to
browse through classical compositions using Classify.
1. Envision your existing or future wife/husband walking down the aisle. Listen
through Classify’s playlist and pick the song you think would fit that person’s
entrance – yes this is somewhat cheesy – so if you are not interested in our
first suggestion read #4
1. Staying with the wedding theme > what classical composition would you want
playing for the “end” of the wedding night?

34. Def Jam
A complete chronicle of Def Jam tunes from the
beginning to present-day. Artist spotlights, City-
Themed Playlists, sub-label collection (Rocafella)
and more. It’s complete coverage of the label’s
history and future.

35. sensesic experiment
Rihanna’s on 2 the next 1
1. It’s no secret that Rihanna is the spotlight artist for Def Jam. Her star power is
sure to keep the label alive and well for years to come if they retain her. She
has pumped out hit after hit and now you are going to choose her next one.
1. Visit the Def Jam app and scroll the landing page until you discover the box
dedicated to RIHANNA
1. Def Jam is letting you act as her decision-maker and allowing you to choose
any song from any of her 6 albums > all found within the app that you feel
could be her next #1 hit
1. Once you choose the song – STAR it within your Spotify account and share it
with friends as your “unknown” Rihanna song that you feel would have made
it to the top of the charts. See if they agree

36. Tweetvine
Creates playlists of the most-tweeted songs
now, of the day and of the week.

37. sensesic experiment
humor me Tweetvine
1. This experiment is about self-entertainment. Twitter took off for some
demographics because it became the hall of fame and landfill for “one-liners”
> artists and their songs are constantly poked fun of on Twitter among all the
rants and raves
1. Visit Tweetvine app and pick any of the timeframes along the top navigation
“now” “last week” “today” etc.
1. Take the top 5 songs from that list. Twitter search each of them, one at a time
and browse the results until you laugh > you’ve just entertained yourself with
the help of Tweetvine

38. The Complete
Collection
See the original artwork contained in the
booklets from the albums by iconic artists and
flip through the digitized pages

39. sensesic experiment
consistently Gaga
1. Even if you are NOT a Gaga fan, you can use your artistic mind to connect
the dots with this experiment > Using The Complete Collection on Spotify,
locate the Lady Gaga collection. It contains artwork + booklets from all her
albums – we will focus on the 3 main releases – Fame > The Fame Monster >
Born This Way. Browse the 3
2. Notice that each of the 3 concludes with a full shot picture of Gaga. Each of
them represents at least 1 track on the album.
3. Observe the pictures and listen to the songs on each album > match each
concluding picture to the song that best fits its look+feel

40. last.fm
Connect your last.fm profile to Spotify and
have seamless integration between the two.
Recommended songs from last.fm based on
your Spotify listening experience > get more
information on the artists you listen to >
scrobble…scrobble

41. sensesic experiment
feist fame
1. One of the primary benefits of using the last.fm Spotify app is the ability to
gather more information about the artist you listen to > last.fm links their
artists profiles to the engine. In this experiment you are going to discover an
interesting fact about Feist
1. You may already know but if you don’t > open Spotify and listen to any Feist
song. I choose Mushaboom (one her most famous). Find the last.fm app while
listening and “add” it to your sidebar using the ADD icon in the upper right
corner.
2. Within last.fm click on “now playing” along the top navigation
3. How did Feist get her first big break? Which band did her band open for?