I am desperately seeking new music (as in, music created within the last 5 years) that carries the temperamental torch of the music I like from previous generations. This means the personality characteristics of the music, not the transitory fashion of the era. I want to be able to input the vast list of artists I love from past eras into a pool to be assessed for personality characteristics (not so much genre affiliation) and click on a filter to specify how many years old the music that comes up is. This means that if I put in Nine Inch Nails, I'm not getting Marilyn Manson and Gravity Kills. I want the newest permutation of the temperamental characteristics of (to keep with the Nine Inch Nails example) asperity, dissonance, complexity, iconoclasm, intelligence/neuroticism, anti-pop with pop elements, anti-PC, etc. transposed into its modern expression, as opposed to the most fickle of radio genre relationships, that of 90's industrial. Maybe it will deliver the closest thing to a Trent Reznor of Jazz or hip hop, or at least the closest modern thing. Don't we have the artificial intelligence algorithms to be able to analyze on psychological personality traits, such as the big 5 temperamental scale, for example? Isn't that the primary power of artificial intelligence, to find associations that aren't simple and obvious? We clearly don't need complex algorithms to filter by release date. That should be dead simple. I have no idea why that isn't a basic feature in every music app. For me, the whole goal of an associative music suggestion bot is to help me discover novel, fresh music that resonates with my personality in a technological paradigm that has detached music from consensus culture and scattered it across an increasingly atomized and rarefied field. How is it that the output of these algorithms is still so simple and useless? I've listed 20 or 30 unique artists. The personality data there to be potentially analyzed to find the meaningful common threads to generate a smart filter should be close enough to infinite. Add a release date slider and I'd be listening to this all the time. Not like now. Only once in a very great while will I hear something new and exciting.
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