![]() Pandora literally saved classical music broadcasting for me. I listen to Pandora all the time, and most of the channels I've created stream classical fare. Today, Gasser is recognized as the architect of the Music Genome-the extensive database of musical attributes that lets Pandora intuit from the songs and compositions you pick what other kinds of music would please your ears. It was Tim's brainchild to put these two worlds together, and happily I was the right guy at the right time and place, with the background to be able to actually design the thing." "I answered the e-mail, and soon met with Tim-who recognized that I was not only capable of becoming a music analyst, but was able to help him realize his vision: to marry the realms of music analysis and database technology, and to create what became the Music Genome Project. "This was early 2000, and the words 'music' and 'technology' were just beginning to be used in the same sentence," Gasser noted. It was in that context that Gasser, now an accomplished composer, pianist, and musicologist, heard that Pandora online radio founder Tim Westergren was looking for graduate students to help analyze music for a start-up music technology company. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I was completing my doctorate in musicology at Stanford, and was at a crossroads-between going into academia, and exploring my options as an independent musician.” "It's hard to believe that it was ten years ago," Pandora radio's Chief Musicologist Nolan Gasser confided to me in a recent interview. ![]()
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