Slashdot | AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow « The Music Industry uses a product called HSS (Hit Song Science) made by Spain’s Polyphonic HMI. According to The Guardian « while no one’s talking about it, it seems that the whole record industry is already using AI to choose hits. From unsigned acts dreaming in their…
Surprise
Scenario #1: You’re listening to a song you’ve never heard before, by someone you don’t know. It’s a nice song. Nice melody, nice lyrics, nice arrangement, nice voice. You hope the chorus and bridge won’t spoil the broth. They don’t. They are what you hoped they would be. A nice, comforting fit with the opening…
La pêche à la baleine: The Story
My brother, Benjamin Knobil, is an actor and theater author/director, who works mainly in Switzerland. A couple of months back, he called me to say that he was going to be able to fulfill a long-standing fantasy of his, namely, to sing on-stage. He was invited by a club-owner to sing about the Mediterranean (the…
Whale fishing and other humid songs
First hint…
I’m not the most prolific writer, and I prefer verse to prose, but I really have been very busy lately. So here is the first hint (in frog, sorry) of what I have been up to on the creative front. I’ll tell you more as soon as my fingertips heal from too much guitar playing.
2004: Good riddance
Here’s hoping 2005 won’t be as awful.
Vintage Vince
Watch out! Here comes Vintage Vince, over thirty songs (culled from dozens more!) of frighteningly crude, 4-track, pre-midi, prehestoric music. For the truly adventurous who can see (and hear) beyond the surface of things.
Diary song
I’m not much of a journal-diary writer and never have been. So the point of sknoblog certainly isn’t to attempt to change that. I can talk about making music, I could bore you with the intricacies of translation (and I just might), but there are many important subjects that I will in all likelihood never…
Audio & Politics
I hang out a lot on OS X Audio, a site dedicated to audio on the Mac. The news aren’t updated often enough, but the forums are very active. Anyway, just before and after the US November elections, there were many heated threads debating US politics, some of which I eagerly participated in. (They eventually…
The iPod economy
Kazoobie Kazoos. 😉