The Echo Nest Remix at Dorkbot NYC, March 4 2009

THE ECHO NEST REMIX API Hello dorkbot nyc! I am Brian Whitman a co-founder of The Echo Nest Corporation, a music intelligence concern based in Somerville, MA, USA. The Remix API is/was developed by our lovely employees and well-wishers: Ben Lacker, co-founders Tristan Jehan & myself, Josh Lif-ton, Rob Ochsorn, Adam Lindsay http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix

THINGS WE CAN DO IN OUR COMPANY THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN DO

THINGS WE CAN DO IN OUR COMPANY THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THINGS WE MAKE MONEY DOING

REMIX THINGS WE CAN DO IN OUR COMPANY THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THINGS WE MAKE MONEY DOING

REMIX something to do with hall & oates THINGS WE CAN DO IN OUR COMPANY THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THINGS WE MAKE MONEY DOING

WHAT THE ECHO NEST REMIX API DOES

25 auditory spectrogram 20 15 auditory spectrogram 10 5 1 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 sec. 1 0.8 segmentation 0.6 segments 0.4 0.2 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 sec. B A# A pitch features G# G pitch features F# F E D# D C# C 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 sec. 25 20 timbre features 15 timbre features 10 5 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 segments JEHAN STYLE

4 x 10 2 1 0 beat markers ! -1 ! -2 0 5 10 15 20 25 240 190 143 tempogram 114 96 72 60 0 5 10 15 20 25 1 0.8 0.6 tempo spectrum 0.4 0.2 0 60 72 96 114 143 190 240 JEHAN STYLE

ANY OL SOUND, for free, chop it up into Sections: verse, chorus, bridge Bars Beats (downbeat) Segments / syllables / notes

>> song.segments [segment, segment, segment...] >> song.segments[10].start 34.502 >> song.segments[10].timbre [-30.2, -10.4, 4.5, 3.2...] >> song.segments[10].pitch [0.5, 0.13, 1.0, .... ] >> song.segments.reverse() >> for i in segments: i.stretch(2) i = i + othersong.segment[12] >> You can mix elements, time stretch them, detect & change pitch, move them around, repeat them on downbeats, find a closest match in another song, detect and modify volume envelopes, read/write mp3, aiff, wav File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: invalid syntax ALL SONG ELEMENTS ARE ITEMS IN A LIST

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THE ECHO NEST REMIX API

MAKE WEB SITES

MAKE WEB SITES THAT CONFUSE PEOPLE

MAKE PRETTY PICTURES

I’ve always wanted to hear Justin Timberlake trying to sing Billie Jean automatically by comparing timbre, pitch and loudness distances. -B.L. MAKE MUSIC

Let’s go on residency in Amsterdam and get an adorably nervous Austrian accordionist to play like a bird! -K.D. & B.W. MAKE MUSIC

James Brown... FOREVER. - T.J. MAKE MUSIC

MAKE MOVIES

THE NEAR FUTURE OF THE ECHO NEST REMIX API

STAGE ONE: ALL MUSIC, ALL THE TIME

>> from echonest import search >> segments = search.query(“voice”, soundsLike=”bjork”, pitch=”F#”) >> len(segments) 65706 >> new_song = random.shuffle(segments).write(“bjork2009.mp3”)

STAGE TWO: GET OFF THE COMPUTER

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS THING IT’S CRAZY

STAGE THREE: Let NORMAL PEOPLE use it

100% 75% Music goodness 50% brian 25% 0% nothing not much a little somewhat pretty good expert dork prime Computers know-how

YES WE CAN

brian@echonest.com do you wonder if are you one of those sysex is turing python “people” (you complete? know what I’m saying) would you like to HELP US put girl talk out of did you ever write a business? music app in {R, MATLAB, Excel, bash}? we catalog every orchestra hit 1980-1992. want the password? http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix

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The Echo Nest Remix at Dorkbot NYC, March 4 2009

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