Just finished it – the last few chapters pulled me so far in it woke me up. Ellen’s light is on; Maia carries my light. She will someday carry my Talisman. Never can despair overcome the hope of the light in a child. Good stuff.
Archive for April, 2008
Pandora – radio you create
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008My friend Andy turned me on to this little web application. Interesting.
Tim Westergren crated the Music Genome Project:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.
This web application will create and play a list of songs based on an artist you chose and the attributes of that artist. I’ve not looked into the Genome but its picking interesting artist much like the old classics I like.
Jim
