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