Music industry has a new toy

[elneckio]

If you thought current 'Pop' charts had a lot of music that sucked then its could get worse ....

"Polyphonic's HSS analyzes the underlying mathematical patterns in unreleased music and compares them to the patterns in recent hit songs.  The new technology can isolate individual patterns in key aspects of the music that humans detect and that help determine whether or not they like a given song."

My theory is big company bosses take latest #1 run it through this software then choose the nearest song they have on the shelf as the next release!

Read more here : http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=48160

[Don Seer]

ewwww  

[Lord Funk]

"Polyphonic's HSS analyzes the underlying mathematical patterns in unreleased music and compares them to the patterns in recent hit songs.  The new technology can isolate individual patterns in key aspects of the music that humans detect and that help determine whether or not they like a given song."

So... in simpler terms... it picks songs that sound similar to ones already successful.

Hmmm... not exactly revolutionary, is it? It's just a higher-tech way of doing what record execs have been doing since the charts began.

[GfUnKLBC]

maybe the west coast it dead cuz its songs dont have the right mathematical pattern  

[Trauma-san]

Everybody already knows there's a formula for a hit song, any musician can tell you that.  Intro, Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus repeat to fade.  Put a song in a major key, it sounds happy.  Put a song in a minor key, it sounds sad.  Music Theory is all math anyways.