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INTEREST: Google Chrome's Hatsune Miku Ad Also Wins Silver in Cannes Lions




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ben_the_bear



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:09 pm Reply with quote
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Sakurazuka_Reika



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:23 am Reply with quote
That's a really nice CM. :3
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:11 am Reply with quote
That was just.............................pants. Rolling Eyes
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RyanSaotome



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:12 am Reply with quote
Nice little commercial. I really wish Miku would get more stuff coming out over here... at the very least those PSP games would be nice.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:47 am Reply with quote
Incidentally, eventually we wouldn't even need musicians neither. Meet DarwinTunes:
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No talent necessary: The perfect pop tune can be engineered by a computer program and refined with the input of listeners, according to a recent British study published in the United States.

The experiment, known as DarwinTunes, aimed to test the importance of consumer choice in shaping the music that becomes a hit on modern airwaves.

The program used randomly generated synthesizer beats, tunes and noise ranging from chime sounds to buzzing and beeping.

Online users voted on each the computer’s eight-second-long creations, grading them from “I can’t stand it!” to “I love it!” said the study.

The “loved” tracks were mingled in with other preferred tracks. The more of these “evolutions” a particular track went through, the better people seemed to like it, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


The noise samples that got the worst ratings soon went extinct, while those that were more pleasing to the ear lived on.

“After approximately 2,500 generations under natural selection, the authors found that the loops quickly evolved from noise into appealing music,” said the study.

“We knew our evolutionary music engine could make pretty good music in the hands of one user, but what we really wanted to know was if it could do so in a more Darwinian setting, with hundreds of listeners providing their feedback,” said co-author Bob MacCallum, a mosquito genomics bioinformatician in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London.


No need for singers; no need for musicians. Laughing
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