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The human mind is incredibly easy to cater to. It's been done with all sorts of things, really.
I mean, take one guy with an idea outside the establishment. Torture him. Kill him. Pretend like he came back from the dead. Build religion +1. People fall for the same shit over and over again, why should music be any different? Or course you can cater to the multitudes by figuring out what appeals to the brain patterns of the majority.
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lol are you full of absynthe or something ?
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Most interesting. I can certainly see where they're coming from. I have no doubt that there are unique combinations of the criteria they listed (Melody, Chord progression, etc) that are intrinsically pleasing to the human brain, and groups of songs that exhibit these same characteristics may be similar on a mathematical level. Music and math are very closely related, and the human auditory system is very sensitive to this, even if the listener isn't aware of it on a conscious level.
I am also surprised at how much the image of the music universe resembles pictures I've seen of the structure of the actual universe, with superclusters of galaxies with voids between them.
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Yeah, humans are sensible to "math" when it comes to pleasing their senses. The Greeks already came up with that a couple millenniums ago. Why is a building or a woman's curves visually appealing can be calculated with equations etc ... So yeah, I guess that according to certain parameters, it is possible to determine if a song (or anything else really) will have success or not.
However, I don't believe in this product because I believe there are a good amount of guys in the music industry that are able to not only tell what will be a hit, but to make the hit happen. People who not only have the ear for it, but are also able to detect the new trends before they explode, and who occasionally launch fully manufactured bands with great success.
In that field, I'm really doubtful that the machine is ready to replace human, because human can already do that, and a good amount of other stuff as well. =/
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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