…and waving them around like I just don’t care.
Yesterday I suddenly felt like recording another set, which I did. It is a bit messy because of some experiments and has no well planned structure but should hopefully still provide some pleasant listening.
When I joined the student association Biton about ten years ago and immediately signed up to be a deejay (everything at Biton is done by volunteering menbers, and to become the man behind the music at party’s all I had to do is write my name down on a poster). At first I had to familiarize myself with a lot of music I did not know much about at that time, but I got hooked on deejaying pretty fast and grew out to be a pretty good all-round deejay, if I do say so myself. I had much fun, but a few years ago I grew tired of maintaining my knowledge of current pop music, most of which I didn’t like that much myself anyway.
I continued learning to beatmix for fun, and because the home-made deejaying software we used at Biton did not run on my Mac I started to look at alternative software on a whim at USB controllers. I do not own a mixer and turntables or cd players and and do not have much money to invest in a small hobby. To my surprise there are plenty affordable deejay controllers. Continue reading »
For the semantic web course in my master program I’ve spend the last few weeks working on an exploratory project with two colleagues. The goal we’ve set for ourselves is to research if it is at all possible to cluster music based on automatically extracted musical features and compare those clusterings to clusterings based on the tags users annotated the songs with on Last.fm.