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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