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In Business
Thursday 8.30-9.00pm,
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24 May 2007
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Peter Day
Music Machine

Peter Day hears about the music machines..computer programmes that record companies are using to try to predict which songs will be hits.
Computers are taking on show business.

In this week's In Business, Peter Day hears about the music machines... the computer programmes that record companies are using to try to predict which songs will be hits.

Film studios are getting in on the act too. Peter Day wonders whether it won’t mean that everything sounds alike.
Contributors:

Mike McCready
Chief Executive, Platinum Blue

Nick Meaney
Managing Director, Epagogix

Mike Smith
Managing Director, Columbia Records UK

Tim Warren and Eric Donnelly
Members of the Alternate Routes

Ayappa Biddanda
Director of Promotions, Welk Music Group (Vanguard Records)

David Soldier
Musician and Composer

Mark Katz
Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of North Carolina and Author of Capturing Sound : How Technology Has Changed Music


Work in Progress

Peter Day writes a regular column for BBC Online. Read Peter Day's latest Work in Progress: Back to school for business schools
About the programme

We try to make ear-grabbing programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers.

In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride.
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