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                   Eigenradio—all the stations, all the time
                                        
> All those stations, playing all that music, all the time! There's at least
> 40 different songs being played every week on most radio stations! Who has
> enough time in the day to listen to them all? That's why we've set up banks
> of computers to do the listening for us. They know what you really want to
> hear. They're trading variety for variance.
> 
> Eigenradio plays only the most important frequencies, only the beats with
> the highest entropy. If you took a bunch of music and asked it, “Music,
> what are you, really?” you'd hear Eigenradio singing back at you. When
> you're tuned in to Eigenradio, you always know that you're hearing the
> latest, rawest, most statistically separable thing you can possibly put in
> your ear.
> 

Via raccooon : notes and scavengings [1], “The statistically optimal music
since 2003 [2]”

Eigenradio is certainly different. The esscence of over 40 different songs
condenced into a cocaphony of sound that almost has a beat you could dance
to. “Avant-garde” could be one term to describe it. “A radio scanning way too
fast” could be another term. “Noise” is yet a third term.

And ironically enough, according to Information Theory [3], Eigenradio is
more interesting than pop radio.

[1] http://www.imaginaryyear.com/raccoon/2003_11_01_archive.html#1070238136
[2] http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/
[3] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/work.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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