Analyzing captured sound and seeking a match based on an acoustic fingerprint for temporal and geographic presentation and navigation of linked cultural, artistic, and historic content

A map index for conceptual, navigational, and physical organization of music-related materials, comprising:

• a processor configured as a registry for maintaining a fundamental relationship between a plurality of core elements and for registering a plurality of data objects comprising descriptions of music, its history, and culture with said core elements;
• wherein said core elements comprise any of time, location, genre, and artist;
• wherein each of said core elements has a unique numeric id, maintained by said registry in an underlying relational database management system;
• wherein said unique numeric id comprises a foreign key for referencing said map index and for relating said corresponding core elements;
• wherein each combination of one numeric id from each of said core elements corresponds to a unique map_id of said map index;
• wherein assignment of a single unique numeric id to each combination of core elements optimizes a mapping of higher level abstractions to a subject relationship with reduction of many-to-one a number of required index operations;
• and
• wherein partition of said map index into a plurality of core elements provides a plurality of core filters for data object search and retrieval;
• and
• capturing a song fragment;
• providing a facility that determines an acoustic fingerprint for said song fragment;
• using said acoustic fingerprint to access a music database to identify a song that corresponds to the captured fragment;
• receiving from said music database music identification information for said song;
• providing said music identification information as a user selection to a navigation facility;
• and
• said processor configured to provide a navigation facility for user selection of a combination of all of said core elements in connection with collections of music and said music-related information, and for generating and presenting to said user in response to said user selection a corresponding map that includes independent images of all of music, its history, and culture with regard to said collections of music and music-related information;
• wherein said culture presented on said map in response to said user selection comprises results that include independent images of all of fashion, film, literature, music, and news;
• wherein said processor is configured to generate and present to said user at least one animated mural comprising said images and that depicts a fundamental combination of time, place, genre, artist, and culture in connection with said music-related information;
• wherein said animated mural comprises a dynamically animated selection of said images derived from the user's current selection;
• and
• wherein said images further comprise represent any of regions, cities, artists, news items, fashion trends, movies, books, and genres of art.