The document discusses how personal music mediums like transistor radios, cassette tape players, CD players, and MP3 players have influenced culture over time. It argues that three key factors drive these changes: the degree of choice in music selection, the level of integration into daily life, and production/distribution costs. Each new medium increased choice and integration while lowering costs, leading to greater music diversity, an emphasis on singles over albums, and lyrics becoming secondary to beats.
One of ten presentations made by innovative mobile music startups for the "Mobile Applications" category of MidemNet Lab 2011, MIDEM's startup competition.
Mix Me In is an easy to use interactive digital music service which allows
fans to create and purchase in real time multiple alternate versions of
songs by their favorite artists as both Mobile Applications and on
Facebook in SocialMusic Player
The slides for my seminar on adaptive music at the Charles University in Prague // Introduction to the topic of adaptive music // Music Design // Sequence Music Engine // On development of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance soundtrack.
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Presented on August 9, 2010 at the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
pdf available : http://benfields.net/playlist_ismir_2010.pdf
One of ten presentations made by innovative mobile music startups for the "Mobile Applications" category of MidemNet Lab 2011, MIDEM's startup competition.
Mix Me In is an easy to use interactive digital music service which allows
fans to create and purchase in real time multiple alternate versions of
songs by their favorite artists as both Mobile Applications and on
Facebook in SocialMusic Player
The slides for my seminar on adaptive music at the Charles University in Prague // Introduction to the topic of adaptive music // Music Design // Sequence Music Engine // On development of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance soundtrack.
Finding a Path Through the Juke Box: The Playlist TutorialBen Fields
The simple playlist, in its many forms – from the radio show, to the album, to the mixtape has long been a part of how people discover, listen to and share music. As the world of online music grows, the playlist is once again becoming a central tool to help listeners successfully experience music. Further, the playlist is increasingly a vehicle for recommendation and discovery of new or unknown music. More and more, commercial music services such as Pandora, Last.fm, iTunes and Spotify rely on the playlist to improve the listening experience. In this tutorial we look at the state of the art in playlisting. We present a brief history of the playlist, provide an overview of the different types of playlists and take an in-depth look at the state-of-the-art in automatic playlist generation including commercial and academic systems. We explore methods of evaluating playlists and ways that MIR techniques can be used to improve playlists. Our tutorial concludes with a discussion of what the future may hold for playlists and playlist generation/construction.
Presented on August 9, 2010 at the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
pdf available : http://benfields.net/playlist_ismir_2010.pdf
Playlist generation is an important task in music information retrieval. While previous work has treated a playlist
collection as an undifferentiated whole, we propose to build
playlist models which are tuned to specific categories or
dialects of playlists. Toward this end, we develop a general
class of flexible and scalable playlist models based upon
hypergraph random walks. To evaluate the proposed models, we present a large corpus of categorically annotated,
user-generated playlists. Experimental results indicate that
category-specific models can provide substantial improvements in accuracy over global playlist models.
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Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
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- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
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The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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6. THE ARGUMENT
The evolution of personal listening devices have
driven changes in how society listens to music,
the diversity of music genres, and the composition
and sound of mainstream music.
Three elements drive these changes:
1. Degree of choice in music selection.
2. Level of integration into daily life.
3. Production and distribution costs.
11. LISTENERS TRUSTED LOCAL DJ’S FOR SONGS
“ I listened to him [Wolfman]
every night for as long--for
twelve years almost. I know
”
him and it's personal…
-- Curt Henderson, regarding a popular radio DJ, in American Graffiti (1973)
12. EFFECTS OF TRANSISTOR RADIOS
DEGREE OF CHOICE IN MUSIC SELECTION:
LOW CHOICE HIGH CHOICE
TRANSISTOR RADIO: EFFECTS:
Trust DJ’s choice. - Less genres & diversity
- Generational anthems with political undertones
LEVEL OF INTEGRATION INTO DAILY LIFE:
LOW INTEGRATION HIGH INTEGRATION
TRANSISTOR RADIO: EFFECTS:
Portable, but conspicuous - Music-listening was a stand-alone activity
music-listening. - Listeners paid close attention to songs
14. CASSETTE TAPE PLAYER FEATURES
INTRODUCTION OF SONG CHOICE
HANDS-FREE LISTENING (HEADPHONES)
CHEAPER MUSIC PRODUCTION PROCESS
15. WALKMAN HELPED INTEGRATE MUSIC WITH LIFE
“ Walkmans in their inherent mobility are
an icon of individual choice in consumer
culture, permitting users to create their own
soundworld through the spaces, places and
”
timings of consumer culture…
-- Michael Bull in Journal of Consumer Culture
16. TAPES MEANT LOW PRODUCTION COSTS
TASCAM’S PORTASTUDIO ALLOWED EASY,
CHEAP, AND FAST RECORDING SOLUTIONS
17. EFFECTS OF CASSETTE TAPE PLAYERS
DEGREE OF CHOICE IN MUSIC SELECTION:
LOW CHOICE HIGH CHOICE
EFFECTS: TAPE PLAYERS:
- Exploration of music leading to new genres Create personal mixtapes
- Beginning to associate individual identity with music with self-chosen songs.
LEVEL OF INTEGRATION INTO DAILY LIFE:
LOW INTEGRATION HIGH INTEGRATION
TAPE PLAYERS: EFFECTS:
Hands-free music-listening - Popularity of music & exercise
with headphones. - Move towards multi-tasking
MUSIC PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COSTS:
LOW COSTS HIGH COSTS
TAPE PLAYERS: EFFECTS:
Low production costs. - Introduction of new music (punk)
20. EFFECT OF CD PLAYERS
DEGREE OF CHOICE IN MUSIC SELECTION:
LOW CHOICE HIGH CHOICE
CD PLAYERS:
Create personal CD’s by
selecting tracks.
MUSIC PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COSTS:
LOW COSTS HIGH COSTS
CD PLAYERS:
Low production costs & more features
with digital sound editing.
23. CHOICE ENABLED DISCOVERY & DIVERSIFICATION
“ When I first joined the Grammy
committee, there were 12 categories.
Now there’s 108.
-- Chuck Rainey during PWR class visit.
”
24. MULTI-TASKING LEADS TO LESS ATTENTION
LYRICAL ANALYSIS OF TOP SONG IN 2009:
TOP BILLBOARD SONG IN 2009: BLACK EYED PEAS’ “BOOM BOOM POW”
25. LYRICS BECOME SECOND PRIORITY
LYRICAL ANALYSIS OF TOP SONG IN 1984:
TOP BILLBOARD SONG IN 1984: PRINCE’ “WHEN DOVES CRY”
26. EFFECT OF MP3 PLAYERS
DEGREE OF CHOICE IN MUSIC SELECTION:
LOW CHOICE HIGH CHOICE
EFFECTS: MP3 PLAYERS:
- Intensive diversification of music into many genres Create multiple personal
- Dominance of single tracks over albums in digital downloads playlists immediately.
LEVEL OF INTEGRATION INTO DAILY LIFE:
LOW INTEGRATION HIGH INTEGRATION
EFFECTS: MP3 PLAYERS:
- Rarely listen to music as a stand-alone activity Highly portable and
- Beat and melody move to foreground, lyrics to the back inconspicuous.
MUSIC PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COSTS:
LOW COSTS HIGH COSTS
MP3 PLAYERS: EFFECTS:
Low production costs & distribution costs. - Masses can produce & share music
28. PERSONAL MUSIC MEDIUMS ENABLED CHANGES
HOW SOCIETY LISTENS TO MUSIC:
Music-listening is a Music-listening is well-integrated in
fully engaging, non- our lives and done in conjunction
passive activity. with daily tasks and exercise.
DIVERSITY OF MUSIC GENRES:
12 Grammy categories. 108 Grammy categories.
COMPOSITION AND SOUND OF MAINSTREAM MUSIC:
Lyrics are a large part Beats and melody greatly
of mainstream music. overshadow lyrics in importance.
29. FUTURE OF MUSIC MEDIUMS
DEGREE OF CHOICE IN MUSIC SELECTION:
LOW CHOICE HIGH CHOICE
Shift in emphasis on music discovery rather than choice.
Choosing favorite parts of songs rather than whole tracks: mash-ups.
LEVEL OF INTEGRATION INTO DAILY LIFE:
LOW INTEGRATION HIGH INTEGRATION
Continued integration of music in our lives through phones.
MUSIC PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COSTS:
LOW COSTS HIGH COSTS
Even lower production and distribution costs.