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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
by powrtoch 16y ago
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 16y agoBelieve it or not, some work has been done in that area: http://news.discovery.com/tech/music-hits-algorithm.html http://news.discovery.com/tech/music-hits-algorithm.html
- powrtoch 16y agoThat'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.