Monday, March 20, 2006
Artists and bands: Pandora wants to meet you
They're coming to Denton on Wednesday!
Listen-up kids, the Pandora team is coming our way this week. There's a meet-up planned for this Wednesday, March 22nd in Denton at The Flying Tomato - 1226 W Hickory Street - (940) 383 1111 - 7:00 PM.
In case you ain't heard yet...Pandora.com is something you wanna know about...
When was the last time you fell in love with a new artist or song?
At Pandora Media⢠(formerly Savage Beast Technologiesâ¢), we have a single mission: To help you discover new music you'll love.
To understand just how we do this, and why we think we do it really, really well, you need to know about the Music Genome Projectâ¢.
For almost six years now, we have been hard at work on the Music Genome Project. It's the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Together our team of thirty musician-analysts have been listening to music, one song at a time, studying and collecting literally hundreds of musical details on every song. It takes 20-30 minutes per song to capture all of the little details that give each recording its magical sound - melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics ... and more - close to 400 attributes! We continue this work every day to keep up with the incredible flow of great new music coming from studios, stadiums and garages around the country.
We've now created an interface to make this available to music lovers so they could use this musical 'connective-tissue' to discover new music based on songs or artists they already know.
Pandora⢠is the doorway to this vast trove of musical information. With Pandora you can explore to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
You can create as many "stations" as you want. And you can even refine them. If it's not quite right you can tell it more and it will get better for you.
The Music Genome Project was founded by musicians and music-lovers. We believe in the value of music and have a profound respect for those who create it. We like all kinds of music, from the most obtuse bebop, to the most tripped-out drum n bass, to the simplest catchy pop tune. Our mission is to help YOU connect with the music YOU like.
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Mike Orren, says:
Dude has the best email network I've ever seen. In the space of thirty minutes this afternoon, I got no less than six emails from various friends and well-wishers suggesting we meet with Michael.
I hope we get to see him. I'm more of a Last.fm fan myself, and I got the hard sell from the Musicip folk at SXSW. I'm curious to see how these sorts of services can interact on a local level.
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Mike Orren, says:
Check out my interview with Tim here: http://www.texasgigs.com/podcasts/tex...
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