Major Music Labels Use Artificial Intelligence To Help Determine "Hitability" Of Music
Polyphonic's HSS analyzes the underlying mathematical patterns in unreleased music and compares them to the patterns in recent hit songs. The new technology can isolate individual patterns in key aspects of the music that humans detect and that help determine whether or not they like a given song. For example, the dictionary describes melody as a series of notes strung together in a meaningful pattern. But determining what is "meaningful" is a very human and very subjective experience. This technology is able to detect what those melody patterns are as well as decipher patterns in other aspects of the music such as beat, harmony, pitch, octave, fullness of sound, brilliance and chord progression.
He's a natural.
I did some site maintenance tonight: created a discography page, created a live music page (w/ lots of history), new splash page loop, made current page bold in the header, and did some miscellaneous clean up.
I found this beautiful poem on Caterina's Poems about War site:
Keeping Quiet
by Pablo Neruda. (trans. Alastair Reid.)And now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.For once on the face of the earth
let's not speak in any language,
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would not look at his hurt hands.Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about,
I want no truck with death.If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.Now I'll count up to twelve,
and you keep quiet and I will go.
Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathan Rauch
(I am one of these.)
William Fields live @ MIT
1. Amaryllis (live)
2. Clrs (live)
3. Native (live)*
4. Second (live)*
5. Miss Waldron's Red Colobus
6. Manitou
7. Another (live)
8. Searchlight Needles
9. Kulma
10. Bulb
11. Peace Piece (live)**
* Contains unintentional heat-induced computer glicthes.
** Based on the original by Bill Evans.
All live tracks are completely unedited and unmastered. All non-live tracks are available for download on the music page.
Just a reminder that I will be performing live this Wednesday. Here's the official info.
Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences - U.S. Senator Robert Byrd
This gives me hope:
Millions Join Anti-Iraq War Protests Worldwide
Here's to your health:
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Eat lots of these.
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Student Loans are for Suckers by Ted Rall
I will be performing live Wednesday, February 19th at MIT's Thirsty Ear Pub in Cambridge, MA. The event is called Signals and Systems and it runs from 10pm-1am.
The pub is at 305 Memorial Drive at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive on the MIT campus. Here's a map. It's 21+ , free admission, and they have very cheap beer.
Also performing will be locals Etsi vs Etsu and Shifty.
This will be my Boston area debut performance, and my first solo live performance in a long time. Almost all of the material will be brand new. I hope to see you there!
Waiting for War by David Smith-Ferri
Do Iraqis want an American invasion to free them from Saddam Hussein? An American journeys to Iraq, where he finds a people battered by twenty years of war and sanctions and 30 years of Saddam Hussein’s rule praying an invasion does not come.
First notes for 639-year composition
The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday.The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called As Slow As Possible.
Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work. (...)Background on GuernicaA diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.
A beautiful, beautiful documentary.
Vibon 2: Blip-Pop Click
William Fields - Release Form
Label: tbtmo Records
Released: 2/2003
Absorb.org Review
Gridface Review
Erasing Clouds Review
Intellectos Review
Duotone Review
Splendid Review
BodyBurden - Pollution in People.
Very eye-opening.