Interesting! I had heard about this project years ago and lost track of it somehow. Just doing some hit and miss all of the music had redeeming quality--unlike so much of what the industry shovels at us today. I'll spend some time exploring this site.
They also have a podcast series at iTunes.
The Music Genome Project®
On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
[From Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music]
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