The Spirit of Music: The Science of Pop


	The Spirit of Music: The Science of Pop
einbar
6-9-2008 12:28 PM
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6-9-2008 4:41 PM
ratilfar
I heard of music by the numbers but this is ridiculous. Of course I don't acquire my music based on any charts. That is a fools errand to say the least.
6-9-2008 4:41 PM
raven714
OK if that is so then how does it explain the music you cannot understand?
What do they call it "Rat" music!
6-11-2008 4:17 PM
buildmuscle
The radio stations won't even need to think about what to play anymore - just do the analysis for us!
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}">Hit Song Science claims to be able to predict whether a song will be a pop hit</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/07/spiritof.music/index.html">Since the early days of pop music, the music industry has been searching for the 
secret formula to writing a successful song </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/07/spiritof.music/index.html">now a piece of software claims it can compute whether a song has chart-topping 
potential, and a number of record companies and musicians are using Hit Song 
Science (HSS) to gauge whether they have a hit on their hands.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/07/spiritof.music/index.html">Music Intelligence Solutions, works by breaking down more than 60 elements of a 
song, including melody, harmony, tempo, pitch, octave, beat, rhythm, fullness of 
sound, noise, brilliance and chord progression, and compares it against a 
database of over 3.5 million past commercial hits</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/07/spiritof.music/index.html"><P getElementsByClassName="function() {
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}">The program organizes songs into clusters with similar-sounding equivalents and then rates the song on a scale of one to ten, with a score of 7.3 being deemed likely to do well in the music charts.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B8733B36-33C7-48B8-B7C9-23B7B0A4550D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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