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The Beatles and Liverpool

Generating music using AI

Generative AI technologies are becoming increasing more inpressive with time as illustrated here:

Specific example.

Seth Lakeman at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival

Spotify Upgrade

Spotify has upgraded their service to utilize social media techniques, you can find out more in the The Guardian and The Register. Here's a video explaning the changes:

Visualsing Music

This is interesting, but doesn't quite work as well as other kinds of music visualization I've come across:

Fast Fourier Transform from peter menich on Vimeo.

(h/t: David Thompson)

The Meaning of Music

Norm has a few words of wisdom on the subject.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's a visualisation of Beethoven's 5th:

(h/t: David Thompson)

Library Science and Music

Erm, here. Whats the connection? Answers on a postcard pls.

(h/t: Lyn).

Is spotify changing the way we listen to music?

Here.

Jewish Music

Typed in the query 'jewish music' in youtube to see what it came up with. Here's the first hit:

Its a tradtional Yemenite music, and really rather interesting. Enjoy. Also found nagila hava

200 not out!

As this is my 200th post for the Unix Spiders blog, I though I'd post something grand and sweeping. But first - what was the process of choosing it. Well - the stig has been revealed (continuing on from the motor racing theme of my last post), and in one of the videos I saw on the BBC web site, a song from the film 'The Road to Perdition' was played as Michael Schumacher removed the helmet to show himself thus.

I wanted to find the track on youtube, the only bit of evidence I had was the film name itself, and some idea that it was the theme for the film. The latter piece of evidence turned out to be incorrect, however just having the film name did allow me to find the piece of music I was looking for eventually - The Road to Chicago, by Thomas Newman. An interesting unknown item search in music IR, with partial information. Here is this piece:

Using Computer Hardware to make music

Heres how you can do this!

(h/t: David Thompson)

Monday Blues Cure

Firstly, create your own music! More. (h/t: David Thompson).

Now for some music, 'stravinsky rite of spring' first hit on youtube.

Parts 2 and 3 also available.

Drowning Pool

I was searching for details of a film I sort of partly remember, which I did indeed find, called 'The Drowning Pool' but I also found this video:

which rather blew me away! More on the band here.

Beethoven 9th detemines length of music on CD

See here.....or perhaps not?

(h/t: Kris West)

Genre classification visualisation

Here's a video of MARSYAS Genre Meter in action:

Interesting the way it switches between music and speech and emphasizes different images on the roiling drums, and different drums.

Monday Blues Cure

Just for you, your own personal Jesus.

(h/t: David Thompson)

Monday Blues Cure

New bond out, so lets look for two of my favorite Bond theme tunes based on 'Gold'.

"tina turner golden eye video" yields:

"shirley bassey goldfinger" yields:

enjoy.

Monday Blues (extra treat)

Here are some friends playing in the Hampstead Sinfonietta run by the Royal Free Music Society:

They are playing next Saturday (11/10/2008) at St Marks Church. Do go along if you can!