Erik Satie

Pandora

February 5, 2010

I’ve been really getting into Pandora lately. If you don’t know about Pandora, it’s a free Internet music service that taps into the “Music Genome” project. Unlike Last.fm (another interesting music service), which utilizes social filtering, Pandora takes into account the music’s characteristics (instrumentation, rhythm, tempo, and on and on – nearly 400 different attributes [...]

Read the full article →

Haunting Satie

April 25, 2009

The music of Erik Satie haunts me. I’m always sad when the recording ends, and if I had nothing to do I could just listen to this piece (Gymnopedies 1) over and over again. The problem is, when it comes on, no work gets done: I’m entranced. I found this interesting interpretation on YouTube. The [...]

Read the full article →