pitchformula.com This project combines a computer science background and a songwriting hobby with an unhealthy obsession for popular music reviews. In it, I attempt to come up with a new computer-assisted songwriting method which takes music critics' opinions into account. By writing software to statisically analyze the content of several thousand record reviews from the Pitchfork music website (www.pitchforkmedia.com), I generate a set of compositional guidelines based on the musical preferences expressed by the critics. I then use those guidelines to write and record a couple of original songs, discussing in detail the relationships between the songs and the data that I have collected. [via music (for robots)]
posted by soundofsuburbia
on Jun 16, 2004 -
18 comments
John Darnielle has written a song by song defense of Radiohead's amnesiac (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8/9,
10,
11), among
other overly wordy and passionate music reviews, including many pleas for us all to learn to love
doom/death metal. John is a
prolific songwriter himself, under the name The Mountain Goats. All the TMG's music, including their
newest, is recorded on the
Panasonic RX-FT500, a cheap boom box with the gears audibly churning in the background as extra musician.
posted by malphigian
on Mar 6, 2002 -
25 comments
