http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Tastemaking Posts tagged with 'Tastemaking' at MetaFilter. Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:08:44 -0800 Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:08:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/24232/polyphonic%2DHSS Based on a software analysis of 250,000 CDs for mathematical patterns, and further analysis of the last 5 years of Billboards' Top 30, <a href="http://www.polyphonichmi.com/about_us.html"> Polyphonic HMI</a> thinks they know what it takes to rock your world (i.e., cause a song to shoot up the charts). Of course, major labels <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/12/arts/music/12POPL.html">are interested</a> <small>(NYT link, scroll halfway down).</small> Will this cause <a href="http://www.swingmusic.net/WHAT.html">mainstream radio </a>to be overrun with inane, soul-crushingly similar music, and crowd out anything different or interesting? Because I wouldn't like that! tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24232 Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:08:44 -0800 Clearchannel homogenization Music Polyphonic Prediction Tastemaking luser