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Statistically Optimal Music
ShinyPlasticBag writes "'Eigenradio makes its optimal music by analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it. Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio is always on and always live. What you hear on Eigenradio is the best of the New Music, distilled and de-correlated. One song on Eigenradio is worth at least twenty songs on old radio.' Listen up here or here (SHOUTcast)."
Somehow I don't think posting a link to a shoutcast-stream on slashdot is the smartest thing to do...
I've been listening to the stream for 5 minutes or so now. I can't help thinking that this is what a band of R2D2's would sound like, with C3P0 in random memory access as lead vocalist.
It's so very electronic and unnatural sounding, like nothing of this world.
-Ryan
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
For the love of god, we will give your our women and our money, but make it stop!
Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
Somehow I don't think posting a link to a shoutcast-stream on slashdot is the smartest thing to do...
Don't worry, it doesn't have long to live
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it.
But what will the RIAA do when there are no more artists ?
One song on Eigenradio is worth at least twenty songs on old radio.
i'm trying to tune in but i'm not hearing anything...i'd say that makes it better than old radio...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Get off those links. Some of us actually listen to this on a regular basis (or rather, all day at work) and it helps us be more productive. Give me back my noise please. I can't get anything done without it...
Don't Ask Questions. I don't know the answers and even if I did I wouldn't tell you.
Bah...
What do they have to say about using the very algorithm that they apparently use to generate much of their own music, judging from the songs being released the past decade or so?
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Reader's Digest comes to music.
I don't know what radio stations they are sampling, but after a few minutes of listening it sounded like a bunch of "pop-tart" music strewn together being blasted over AM radio...
I used to always joke that you could take all of the Spear Britney albums and--if mixed properly--you could make one long song that didn't change themes, tones or melody once...I'm thinking this is one step closer to proving that theory.... Maybe it was just the time I tuned in--who knows?
There is one thing I find curious though, when I pick from 20 stations in my area, they are all playing the same 9 songs... I hope they have a better selection to choose from than I do!
"God is dead!" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead!" - God
Kinda reminds me of that "Super Recipe" generator I engineered in my lair beneath the Pacific Ocean a few weeks ago. It makes super recipes based on good recipes that you input into it. I like ice cream and filet mignon, so the generator created a filet cream recipe that was supposed to be super but was terrible.
Blast!
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Wow, this really cleared up how this works for me! Thanks for such a clear, informative diagram!
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If you listen carefully, you can hear the server whimper as it slowly melts under a slashdotting.
You must read and write a dialect of English with which I'm unfamiliar.
You tell me how "whilst" differs from "while," and I'll stop calling you a pretentious jackass.
About your sig.
"I named my cat Script."
Is this a security feature to confuse crackers when they break into your system?
You should know security by obfuscation never works in the long run. Also it would break other people scripts.
No, he's my Script Kitty... Duh...
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." --Oscar Wilde
anyone look at the page source?
I bet this is how they Really make the music ...
Why aren't you encrypting your e-mail?
No, but it's great for epileptic spasms...
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
They'll probably subpoena the entire MIT student body via the D.C. court.
Big Brother Bush is doubleplus ungood.
When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it. Too late Eigenradio. The music industry has been doing this for years.
Got Shadowrun? Awakened Worlds
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If only we could do this to actions movies...one hummin' explode-fest!
Surely, we don't need instructions on shampoo bottles, do we?.
After listening to the station I must say this sounds like an alien transmission. We must notify SETI at once and prepare to welcome our new alien overlords.
I think it can be argued that the algorithm that has created this music has, in a sense, encrypted the popular music it was derived from. If the RIAA can detect their copyrighted music in the newly generated music, it must mean they have circumvented that music's encryption. Say hello to the DMCA, Hillary.
But if you don't want to go with the fire w/ fire method, you could also call the newly generated music a parody of popular music -- it is, as you said, derivatives of their property -- and protect it that way.
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What makes you think that the slashdot effect changes the content of the music?
Actually, I think what he was trying to say was something along the lines of:
In Soviet Russia, music slashdots you.
pan instead of scroll!!!
Why not?
Because my mousewheel (as I'd estimate are 90% of the mousehweels out there) is mounted vertically. And yes, I tried rotating the mouse, that did not help.
he's clearly trying to make you suffer.
Humans can make music using computers.
Computers can't make music using computers.
Or even radio stations.
The very idea is disgusting. Has people forgot how
good real and sincere music, played live by people
playing it for the love of it sounds like?
This only reminds how disgutingly consumer-based
our society is.