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The Profoundilizer

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on May 16, 2010 at 12:12:45 pm
 

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The Profoundilizer (aka The Ira Glassifier) - By adding musical interludes, make the tale of your mundane existence sound as profound as an episode of This American Life.

 

One of most popular Podcasts is This American Life, Hosted by Ira Glass. Every week they feature an hour of normal people telling their normal stories. So why is it so interesting when tales of your own life are so mundane? It's not because they tend to talk slowly (although this helps fill at an hour-long show). It's not because of their speech imediments (can you play be a regularl on NPR if you don't have a speech impediment?).

 

What makes This American Life interesting is the short musical segments they play after every banal statement.  Through the magic of music, the banal becomes profound.

 

 

 

Team 

  • Dale Low
  • Brent Noorda
  • Sarah Vowell 

 

Description

 

Paul's Music Wreckommender is an anti-recommender. Give it an artist that you like and it will return a list of artists that are as far away as possible form the original.   It's a great way to clear out that party at the end of the night.  Use the wreckommender to create that special mix-tape for the girl that you want to break up with.   Or use it to explore for new music by feeding the wreckommender the names of bands that you hate. 

 

Here are some sample playlists:

 

 

The Wreckommender works by creating a gigantic graph of artists where each artist is connected to its nearest neighbors (using  Echo Nest artist similarity). When given a an artist, the Wreckommender searchs the graph to find the artists that are furthest way from the seed artist and uses these artists to create a playlist

 

There's some science behind the anti-recommendation.  The paper "Anything but Heavy Metal" discusses the issues around musical tolerance.  

 

 

 

Paul's Music Wreckommender was inspired by the LibraryThing Unsuggester.

 

Links

http://wreckommender.com

 

More info at MusicMachinery.com

 

Tools, Platforms and APIs Used

The Echo Nest API

 

 

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