The Shared Stage

Every musician is a node in an invisible network.

Loading the orbit…

Mapping the network…

The orbit

Bill sits at the center in gold. Everyone he has shared a stage with radiates out, colored by the scene they belong to. Hover a musician to light up their connections; drag to pull the web around.

Linked when two musicians were in the same band.

Showing the most-connected musicians · hover for details

Trace a path

Pick any two musicians; the shortest path lights up through the web above. It routes around Bill on purpose — he played with nearly everyone, so the real story is how people connect without him.

The bridges

The connective tissue — musicians who move between projects and hold otherwise-separate worlds together. Ranked by how many of Bill's projects they span.

Bands that share blood

Where the rosters overlap — pairs of bands that share the most members.

Scenes

Take Bill out of the picture and the one big web breaks apart into the scenes he actually moves between — each named for the band at its heart. The colors on the map above match these scenes.

The archive stops being a list and becomes a network.

Every lineup Bill has ever played, redrawn as the people who were in the room — and the threads that tie them to each other.