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Tropicalia

  • #4
  • 11/09/06


Tom Ze.

In an interview by Josh Kun:

Zé conspired with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, and others to pummel Afro-Brazilian folk with hallucinatory psych-rock, embrace Carmen Miranda while drinking Coca-Cola, and pledge allegiance to Carnaval while butchering the national anthem on live TV (ahem, before Woodstock). It was all a riff on what the Brazilian modernist poet Oswald de Andrade called cultural cannibalism: devour all the First World pop you can find, grind it up with local teeth, then spit it up transformed.


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The Echo Nest

  • #3
  • 11/09/06

Brian Whitman, Ph.D. MIT Media Lab: Music, Mind, Machine. On the subject of the Eigenradio.


All those stations, playing all that music, all the time… Who has enough time in the day to listen to them all? 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. Eigenradio makes its optimal music by analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it. What you hear on Eigenradio is the best of New Music, distilled and de-correlated. One song on Eigneradio is worth at least twenty songs on old radio. This season, as a present to friends worldwide, our system listened to as much Christmas music as it could handle. When it was done it synthesized these sixteen new timeless classics.


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