Somehow music has been more than a skill to me. Even if I didn't know how to play this instrument I would have loved it as much as I do... because in my head, I don't know when does the appreciation of beauty end and the will to inquire for meaning begins. Its all so much the same for me.

To me, loving music is same as loving math or liking art. May be thats the reason why I somewhat hate using math as a professional skill either - the way music is best done without the pressure of performance, I think math is best done without the desire for a specific solution.

From Pandora with love...

I found these bands on myspace/last.fm that I hadn't heard of before, due to Pandora. Check them out:

hard-rock:

mojo rib
stereo fuse
pitbulldaycare
100 watt smile
Alkaline Trio
Gold Finger
Rainer Maria
Pleasure Club
Nightwish
High and Mighty Color(japanese)
Fly Leaf

Surf-rock:
The Ventures
Los Straitjackets

Classic:
Christine Fellows

Bluegrass:

Old Crow Medicine Show

Pundit pandora

Got my octopad plugged in, and tried playing some rhythms. I have to get some training from somewhere, but thats not gonna happen before I decide what I am going to do for the next year. And even if I am relaxing for a few more years (doing a phd or something) drums would be one of the last items on my list.

Meanwhile discovered pandora, and man! what a tool that is- fetches favorite artists out of my head. Seeded michelle branch, alanis morrisette, the corrs, vanessa carlton and got:

1. natalie imgruglia
2. Avril lavigne
3. girls aloud
4. britney spears
5. alice peacock

all by pandora automatically.

To someone who doesn't know either music or computer science, this would be far more fantastic - seems like we are getting closer to understanding how brain works. These songs above are all same kinda music in my head. I could associate adjectives like , "usual pop music", "girly stuff" or something equivalent.

What I could do next is to provide natalie imbruglia, girls aloud, britney as seed and check if i can get the seeds from previous experiments. There is no reason why the results wouldn't be same.

Just starting with Led zep as seed, you get ac/dc, black keys, kiss, rolling stones. If the program is honest (that if it doesn't hardcode the connection between ledzep and ac/dc) this is a great accompolishment of the project.

Anyways, my stations:

Groovy:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh30503340
Metal:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh30464179
Soft Rock:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh30509997
Pop:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh30720912
Grunge:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh30441948
Latin:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh133716561161130668
Classic:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh132249619376149164