Music Intersector Now With Up to Five Users

Some time ago, I created a little addon to Last.fm called Music Intersector. It shows which bands are common between the favorites of two users. As you might have noticed, Last.fm has integrated this functionality into its own system, so my old music intersector became a bit pointless. Not anymore. I just updated it and […]

beyond vision

There is one project that I was working on, but never found the time to tell you about: beyond vision. It is the largest project that I have done so far and it required so much time that I didn’t have any time left to write about it. 🙂 But in December it was finally […]

Music Matching your Running Speed or Heartbeat: Yamaha BodiBeat

Yamaha released a mp3 player which automatically chooses songs which match your current activity. It is called BodiBeat or more plainly BF-1. Using a accelerometer the player tries to determine the current running rhythm. It then automatically chooses the music best matching this rhythm. In another mode, it monitors the heartbeat of the listener using […]

Anberlin – Blueprints for the Black Market (CD Review / Recommendation)

Anberlin are an american Band which exists since 2002. Their style is commonly referred to as alternative rock, emo or "christian rock" (weird term for a music style). I am very bad in categorizing music, so please leave a comment if you know more. 🙂 In 2003, Anberlin released their debut record, Blueprints for the […]

MySong: Simple Software Automatically Composes Musical Accompaniment

A research project by a student (Ian Simon) and a Microsoft empoyee lead to a nice toy called MySong. This software analyzes the melody of a vocal track and automatically creates a musical accompaniment: MySong […] automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied […]

Satanic Message for Computer Geeks

Satanic messages in music are usually found in form of passages which, played in reverse (and with much fantasy), result in subversive texts. A satanic message for advanced satanic followers discovered Alberto Garcia: The band Urusei Yatsura placed an acoustically coded computer program at the beginning of one of their songs. Decoded and run with […]

Subway to Sally – Bastard (Review)

Subway to Sally have been one of my favourite bands for a long time now. Most people would call their style folk metal, but somehow this does not feel right for me. They are definitely using a lot of folk elements and also use several classical instruments (shalm, violin, bagpipe, mandolin and more). Their use […]

thesixtyone – Digg-Styled Music Discovery System

thesixtyone is a platform on which you can listen to and rate music and rate it. Musicians upload their music for everyone to listen to. If you like it, you can “bump” it, giving it a vote. The music which gets voted the most is posted to the front page. So basically, it works for […]

Ghoultown – Tales from the Dead West (CD-Review)

Ghoultown create music that I have difficulties to categorize. It sounds a bit like Country, but is based mainly on electric guitars. The atmosphere is gloomy, although the music doesn’t take itself overly serious at this.

Last.fm Open Mind Index – How open are you to different styles of music?

The list of Last.fm extensions is still expanding. 🙂 Today: The Last.fm Open Mind Index With this tool, you can calculate your personal Open Mind Index (OMI). The OMI is intended to reflect the bandwidth or your personal musical taste. The higher the number, the broader is your taste in music and the more open […]