New  developer site offers open and direct access code to The  Echo  Nest's
                               'Musical  Brain'
     SAN  DIEGO  and SOMERVILLE,  Mass.,  Sept.  8  -- The  Echo  Nest,
a  medicine intelligence fellowship providing enhanced music hunting,
recommendation and interactivity technology, today, launched its developer
Web  site, developer.echonest.com at the DEMOfall  08 conference. This
release  provides the development community with the freedom to tap into The
Echo  Nest's  Musical  Brain  by opening more than 30 developer tools for music
Web  sites.
    Based  on 12 age of research at MIT,  Columbia  and UC  Berkeley,  the
Musical  Brain  is a fully-automated learnedness platform political machine with an
in-depth apprehension of the cultural and acoustic factors that inform
music penchant. Current  online music intelligence information solutions offer only a
portion of the tools necessary to fully infer music across the web,
and the Musical  Brain  trumps them all with its power to do the undermentioned:
    -- Listen  to music and understand every song dynasty in the same elbow room a player
or artist would distinguish it
    -- Read  just about music to understand what the entire world knows about
every artist, album and song
    -- Learn  music trends to understand music conduct across the Web  and
predict new music trends
    By  opening access to the Musical  Brain  through developer.echonest.com,
The  Echo  Nest  is acting as the software system equivalent of a ironware store for
developers through and through an open API  architecture. The  Echo  Nest's  new developer
biotic community is a complete deposit of easy-to-use tools that will fuel the
creativity of anyone looking to create or enhance Web  sites with musical
content. These  tools include in-depth artist information, music search,
music recommendation, remix applications, mash-up and analytic tools. The
new  Echo  Nest  situation empowers developers with myriad tools to innovate and
change the way users discover and interact with music through and through their
applications. At  DEMOfall  08, The  Echo  Nest  will exhibit some of these
groundbreaking ceremony applications. The  applications let in:
    -- A  personalized music search Web  site, serving up the latest intelligence,
videos, reviews from the web -- all personalised to each user's unique
taste. The  application is powered by The  Echo  Nest's  Web  feeds and music
recommendation APIs
     -- A  screaming music mash-up site, Morecowbell.dj,  which automatically
overdubs cowbell and Christopher  Walken  onto any vocal -- in perfect pitch
and time. The  site is powered by The  Echo  Nest's  music analysis API
     -- The  imeem "Echo  Chamber,"  a individualised radio player that
mechanically creates customized radio streams for whatsoever imeem substance abuser, using
the Echo  Nest's  music testimonial API
     -- A  video/audio mash-up land site applies the Echo  Nest's  Remix  API  to
permit users to easily create video remixes of their favorite artists
    The  Echo  Nest  believes in empowering creative developers with great
ideas, by giving them access to the most advanced music intelligence
program available anywhere. Providing  developers with direct access to The
Echo  Nest's  repository of easy-to-use tools will accelerate innovation and
provide richer consumer experiences, helping music fans find the music they
dear and keep coming back for more.
    "Because  so much music content is available on so many sites, content
today is becoming more of a commodity and what sets sites apart is the
consumer see" said Jim  Lucchese,  CEO  of The  Echo  Nest.  "The  tools at
developer.echonest.com offer whatever music land site plug-and-play access to an
incredible platform -- by opening access to our Musical  Brain,  we hope to
set ahead innovation in online music, powering the next wave of vanguard
music sites."
    "The  Echo  Nest's  Musical  Brain  is the engine driving the evolution of
online music through an open, API-based  strategy," aforementioned Chris  Shipley,
executive  producer of the DEMOfall  conference. "I'm  excited to provide a
forum for The  Echo  Nest  and witness the next waving of consumer and music
sites that will be easy to create through its chopine."
    About  The  Echo  Nest
     The  Echo  Nest  helps online music companies make connections 'tween
people and their music more meaningful through its "Musical  Brain,"  a
large-scale machine learning platform that actually reads about medicine and
listens to euphony everywhere on the web. The  company is co-founded by two
MIT  Media  Lab  PhDs,  Brian  Whitman  and Tristan  Jehan.  The  Echo  Nest's
investors  include a cofounder of the MIT  Media  Lab  and a Boston-based
private  investment fund.
    About  DEMO
     Produced  by Network  World  Event  and Executive  Forum,  the semi-annual
DEMO  conference focuses on emerging technologies and new products, which
ar hand-selected from across the spectrum of the engineering marketplace.
The  DEMOfall  conferences have earned their reputation for consistently
identifying tomorrow's cutting edge technologies, and have served as establish
pad events for accompanies such as Palm,  E*Trade,  Handspring  and U.S.
Robotics,  portion them to secure speculation funding, found critical
concern relationships, and influence early adopters. Each  DEMO  fall
conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and
technologies. For  more information, visit http://www.demo.com.
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
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