If you don’t already have a Shadwell station on Pandora, fire one up now! After being picked apart and analyzed up and down by musicologists, “Clarity” has now been added to the Music Genome Project and Pandora. The whole process is pretty cool, and rather than try to explain it ourselves, let’s let Wikipedia have a go:
A given song is represented by a vector (a list of attributes) containing approximately 400 "genes" (analogous to trait-determining genes for organisms in the field of genetics). Each gene corresponds to a characteristic of the music, for example, gender of lead vocalist, level of distortion on the electric guitar, type of background vocals, etc. Rock and pop songs have 150 genes…each gene is assigned a number between 1 and 5, in half-integer increments.
Each song is analyzed by a musician in a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes per song. Ten percent of songs are analyzed by more than one technician to ensure conformity with the standard. Given the vector of one or more songs, a list of other similar songs is constructed using a distance function.
It’s that easy! Get your Shadwell station running here.
A given song is represented by a vector (a list of attributes) containing approximately 400 "genes" (analogous to trait-determining genes for organisms in the field of genetics). Each gene corresponds to a characteristic of the music, for example, gender of lead vocalist, level of distortion on the electric guitar, type of background vocals, etc. Rock and pop songs have 150 genes…each gene is assigned a number between 1 and 5, in half-integer increments.
Each song is analyzed by a musician in a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes per song. Ten percent of songs are analyzed by more than one technician to ensure conformity with the standard. Given the vector of one or more songs, a list of other similar songs is constructed using a distance function.
It’s that easy! Get your Shadwell station running here.
