Funny story...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk...51,00.html

JO TATCHELL, GUARDIAN - The magic ingredient set to revolutionise the pop industry is, simply, a piece of software that can "predict" the chance of a track being a hit or a miss. This computerised equivalent of the television programmer Juke Box Jury is known as Hit Song Science. It has been developed by a Spanish company, Polyphonic HMI, which used decades of experience developing artificial intelligence technology for the banking and telecoms industries to create a program that analysed the underlying mathematical patterns in music. It isolated and separated 20 aspects of song construction including melody, harmony, chord progression, beat, tempo and pitch and identifies and maps recurrent patterns in a song, before matching it against a database containing 30 years' worth of Billboard hit singles - 3.5m tunes in all. The program then accords the song a score, which registers, in effect, the likelihood of it being a chart success.

Ever since its initial trials, HSS has proven a hit with record labels who sent material to Polyphonic in hope of a second opinion. HSS confidently predicted Norah Jones's meteoric success (tipping no less than 10 songs on her debut album Come Away with Me) well in advance of her chart-topping appearances and in the face of an industry unconvinced she would have any commercial impact. . .

HSS's crucial design flaw is that it can only look at the past. Those "left field", illogical and grassroots-inspired departures from the norm, such as disco or drum and bass, could not have been predicted.

February 2005

http://prorev.com/arts.htm

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See what happens when today's "record execs"...



...go deaf.



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm