Tag: music

Pirate Bay

The popularity of the site didn’t go unnoticed in Hollywood. Like many other BitTorrent sites, The Pirate Bay also received several takedown notices. However, the way they responded to these was quite unique and some have become news stories in themselves. Threats from the entertainment industry didn’t stop at sending letters. In true Hollywood style, The Pirate Bay admins soon saw private investigators watching their every move. “They’ve sent private investigators after us, which is really stupid if you do something online. What are they going to find, that we are sitting behind our computers? I guess the private investigator that went after me in Gothenburg got to see a lot of good bars, a lot of late nights, but probably not a lot of evidence gathering.” Peter then noted that someone from the IFPI was actually at the conference, “still trying to find out what we’re doing.”

loved for the title alone. but in general, there is not nearly enough schumpeterian creative destruction. hopefully the current business climate will destroy a few obsolete industries.

Echo Nest

Takes an MP3 and generates an XML file, which describes the track’s structure and musical content. Analyze outputs rhythm, pitch, timbre, and just about any aspect of an audio file with data synchronous to the underlying music precise to the sub-millisecond level.

Radiohead House of Cards

LIDAR enters the mainstream

Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”. No cameras or lights were used. Instead 2 technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.