The Music Genome Project: Intro: "The foundation of Savage Beast's software solution is the Music Genome Project, the most sophisticated taxonomy of musical information ever collected on this scale. In this database, Savage Beast has developed a system for breaking down and analyzing music along a proprietary set of attributes that capture not only the musical identity of a song, but also many significant qualities that are relevant to understanding the musical preferences of consumers who browse the material. Each song is analyzed along 400 distinct musical attributes to create a complete musical analysis. Savage Beast was founded on the idea that every individual has unique musical tastes, and that an effective recommendation tool needed to contain a rich enough understanding of music to account for this diversity. By building products that utilize the wealth of musicological information stored in the Music Genome Project, our technology can be highly responsive to each individual, and allow consumers to easily scan vast catalogues of music to find new songs and artists they will like." Link 1 Link 2 Link 3
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
