On: How To Make Sure People Will Remember Your Ideas

[powrtoch]

I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes songs catchy. It's trickier than you might think (if you don't take the bottom of the barrel approach of endless repetition). One day I plan to have an algorithm for this.

Most of these ideas mesh pretty well with my theories on that. Of course, I'd love to see some predictive tests before I declare anything psychological fact.

[petercooper → powrtoch]

Believe it or not, some work has been done in that area: http://news.discovery.com/tech/music-hits-algorithm.html

[powrtoch → petercooper]

That's really interesting, I appreciate the link!

To clarify though, my ideas are geared towards actually generating the tunes to begin with, not analyzing them afterward.

It's too bad this thing isn't open-source and is stuck behind a paywall, seems like there's a lot to be learned from it.