Matthew Supert

.:Pandora.com:.

It is hard to descibe what exactly this site is, because it really is something so new. Basically a bunch of artists got together and broke down thousands of songs and artists to determine their genome.

From this they have setup a website that allows you to input a song or artist you like, and based on the genome characteristics it will reccomend to you other songs and artists that you will like. You then can create playlists based on the song or musical characteristics that you find appealing. As you can see from the above picture, I entered a search for Orbital, and it is now guiding me through perspective artists that share similar qualities. The listener can then vote on whether or not they like the song that is being heard.

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On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.

Over the past 5 years, we've carefully listened to the songs of over 10,000 different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.

It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy - but now that we've created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe
.:Music Genome Project:.