just in time for Christmas
by John at 12/01/2004 01:09:00 PM
New music!
Eigenradio is playing the hits, 24 hours a day, streaming live to you over the web.
But, this isn't music like you've heard it before. I'll let Eigenradio explain:
Eigenradio plays only the most important frequencies, only the beats with the highest entropy. If you took a bunch of music and asked it, "Music, what are you, really?" you'd hear Eigenradio singing back at you. When you're tuned in to Eigenradio, you always know that you're hearing the latest, rawest, most statistically separable thing you can possibly put in your ear.
Basically, Eigenradio is a bank of computers listening to live radio, processing the signals they receive, and reconstructing a new signal that represents the dominant structures in the received signals. From the obscure diagram, it looks like Eigenradio is using principle component analysis to find the largest eigenvalues / vectors of the input signals (that's the box labeled PCA) - your guess is as good as mine for what happens after that.
And, for Christmas, you can download the cool and spacy "A Singular Christmas" composed of all the Christmas music Eigenradio could handle. I'm listening to it right now to help me get in the holiday spirit after what I posted below.
(yoink! Boing Boing)
Eigenradio is playing the hits, 24 hours a day, streaming live to you over the web.
But, this isn't music like you've heard it before. I'll let Eigenradio explain:
Eigenradio plays only the most important frequencies, only the beats with the highest entropy. If you took a bunch of music and asked it, "Music, what are you, really?" you'd hear Eigenradio singing back at you. When you're tuned in to Eigenradio, you always know that you're hearing the latest, rawest, most statistically separable thing you can possibly put in your ear.
Basically, Eigenradio is a bank of computers listening to live radio, processing the signals they receive, and reconstructing a new signal that represents the dominant structures in the received signals. From the obscure diagram, it looks like Eigenradio is using principle component analysis to find the largest eigenvalues / vectors of the input signals (that's the box labeled PCA) - your guess is as good as mine for what happens after that.
And, for Christmas, you can download the cool and spacy "A Singular Christmas" composed of all the Christmas music Eigenradio could handle. I'm listening to it right now to help me get in the holiday spirit after what I posted below.
(yoink! Boing Boing)
It never occurred to me it might be a hoax! I need to work on my cynicism.
(Actually, I checked out his web page at MIT - he seems to be doing a lot of signal processing work, esp. oriented to music and machine learning. Which is cool, and fits in with the Eigenradio project.)
(Maybe if you visited him at MIT he could process Jumblie music. For example, compose one song that represented most of the variance of all your compositions - the essence of the complete Jumblies in one 3 minute tune)
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