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...Each song in the MGP's database-collected work from over 10,000 artists, indie and big time-has 400 isolated "genes." The MGP's music experts listen to the songs and catalog them every which way, evaluating things like instrumentation, influences, rhythms, harmonies, tonality, and a bunch of technical musical stuff that I don't entirely get. Their technique isn't untried-they've been building systems with this sort of recommendation system for clients like Barnesandnoble.com for years. Because every song is evaluated by a human rather than a machine using a simple algorithm ("people...
...invent an identity for himself on paper or in person; when he uses his invisibility, clumsily, to filch $2,200 from the cash drawer of a bank, he is so conscience-stricken that he returns the money before closing time. Fred Wagner, a copywriter for a mail-order catalog and a would-be novelist, is the sort of wimp whose wife of four years would leave him out of "contempt for his habitual failure to claim justice from the petty tyrants of quotidian life." One day he discovers that he can simply will himself, and anything he is touching, into...
...makes matters easy. It took two years to record, in part because McCartney plays almost all the instruments on it (including drums, harmonium and flugelhorn) and in part because he actually cared. Chaos and Creation is adventurous, melodic and emotionally complicated--the first album in his post-Fab Four catalog that really matters. If it is not as dark or as brilliant as Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan's "Hey, I can still do this!" album, it belongs on a shelf nearby. "Since the Beatles, I've approached making records every which way," says McCartney. "A lot of times...
...formal chorus. They don't try to resolve themselves; they just drift into provocative emotional territory and linger for a while. Chaos and Creation has its share of bright moments too--the arena-ready Follow Me, the joyously goofy Promise to You Girl--but the album feels like a catalog of all McCartney's emotions, not just the easy ones...
...opportunity to, as the "Big Bang" catalog says, "make history" presented itself this year when the Pompidou had to install a new fire-protection system. Instead of closing the museum and transferring its contents to some remote arrondissement, the Pompidou decided to stay open and refit one floor at a time. So while part of the building is getting its sprinklers, the Pompidou is squeezing much of its content?an astounding 850 works?into a single floor and organizing it in a novel way. This thematic approach means that you can enjoy a Laurel and Hardy film in the same...