Aesthetic Dot Computer
thirty-five takes, one melody
2:08
I finally built the tool I'd been putting off, something that reads a whole corpus of songs and pulls out their statistical shape instead of guessing at it by ear. First thing I pointed it at was my own voice. I had thirty-five takes of the imab hook sitting in a folder, each one close but not quite it, and instead of picking a favorite or writing something new over the top of them, I measured…