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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
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.
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.
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...
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.