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Notes & dispatches from the entire team @ The Echo Nest Corporation, a music intelligence startup in Somerville, MA.

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May 5 8:52pm

Congratulations Matmos!

Matmos’s “Supreme Balloon” drops today. It’s an excellent record, you can buy it or hear a jam with some of the tracks. The Echo Nest was very proud to have contributed to the record by analyzing a bunch of the tracks and then making some waterfall plots on the timbre coefficients. Robert Syrett took our plot and drew an almost pixel-for-fiber rendition in watercolor. 

Drew & Martin have been friends of the Nest since before there was a Nest — co-founder Brian first met them when he was a starving research scientist/electronic musician in NYC in 2000 (they’ve even been colocated) and they currently sit at the top of our nascent yet useful Musical Advisory Board. As a way-too-nice gift they gave us the original Syrett rendition that’s on the record, we immediately framed it up (after the co-founders Brian and Tristan fought about the mat color like an old married couple) and we gaze upon what might just be the first in a long series of Things Our Company Does That a Lot of People See.

May 1 8:45pm

The Echo Nest wins NSF SBIR Phase II Grant

We’re thrilled to announce that The Echo Nest has received an NSF SBIR Phase II grant. (We won the Phase I in 2007.) The Nest was recently at the grantees conference in Baltimore where we met some fellow grantees and caught up with some old friends. We’d show you pictures, but they’d mostly be of Tristan in bed (he got sick) and Brian trying to find McNulty.

The grant supports The Echo Nest’s continued development of our “Musical Brain,” a large-scale data mining platform that actually reads about music and listens to music everywhere on the internet.