Jeremy wrote:
] Polyphonic HMI has developed Hit Song Science, an
] artificial intelligence application that helps music labels
] determine the hit potential of music prior to its release.
] The new application is to music what x-rays are to medicine,
] allowing labels to see mathematical patterns and structures in
] music that until now have been hidden.
]
] ... Polyphonic also has begun to experiment with the
] technology at the production level of music creation.
]
]
] There are two possible futures here, and neither is
] particularly bright for traditional artists and their fans.

if you really want to know the future of music, look at the following URL:

http://www.mmusa.tv/content/main/

click on the IMX section, the Interactive Music eXchange. There you will find a program that exists simultaneously in cyberspace as well as on television. Interactively pricing and exchanging artists in a game to amass the most 'points', which can be used for various purposes. A brilliant metaphor for that which has existed for quite some time.

Although I love the term 'unpop'. You should copyright it.

RE: All Your Singles Are Hits To Us