see, discover and listen.
music posters like you’ve never seen before.
Have you ever wondered what great music looks like? Inspired by this question, we turned our favorite rhythms and grooves into unique music posters.
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Every poster has a carefully curated list of songs
Postersounds is a music and design project developed by Brazilian artists Diogo Cadaval and Rafael Gryner. The idea is to translate musical patterns into beautiful and insightful posters.
how does it work?
What you are looking at is a graphic score — a form of music notation. We take famous rhythmic patterns and write them using graphic symbols. The shape of the symbol indicates a particular sound and the colour indicates the instrument.
The layering of symbols brings our design closer to the experience of listening. In real life, notes, sounds and tones all mix together to make music — the same happens in our posters.
Alongside the stunning music visualisations, every poster comes with carefully researched historical information, playlists you can access via a QR code, and the music written in standard notation.
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rhythmic essence of brazil
The first series we published, where it all started. “Rhythmic Essence of Brazil” begins with faithful representations of three variants of samba: the ‘classic’ samba, the partido-alto, and, of course, the bossa nova.
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sampled grooves
In this series we explore some of the most sampled drum grooves in recorded music. It is a unique perspective on the iconic beats that helped shape music in the last 40 years.
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A visual representation of the most sampled drum groove of all time.
The "Amen break" is everywhere. It's in hip-hop, drum and bass, jungle, pop and much else. You have heard it thousands of times, but this is the first time you are seeing it. The "Amen, Brother" poster is part of the "Sampled Grooves" series. This poster comes with a list of songs which use the sample. The list can be accessed via a QR code, so you can listen to what you are seeing.