We were stoked to participate in the Portland Digital eXperience (PDX) Music Day Hack at Puppet Labs as part of MusicFestNW. There was a great turnout from the PDX tech community including friends from Mozilla and Spotify.

The Brigade’s head of engineering, Chris Jones, came up with the idea to create a Spotify app that visualizes all the original music sampled in a GIRL TALK song with links back to the artists in real time as the song plays.

We chose the song: What It’s All About and used sample data put together by Andy Baio and Wired. Check out the prototype below and you can access the open source repo on Github here.

Kicking off with a Voodoo Doughnut brunch hosted by Spotify

Ben and Nate taking the concept from design to code

Zeke & Chris fueled by kale and coconut water

Nate leads the final demo