Adventures in Music Analytics

Dominique Haughton, Bentley University, Université Paris 1 and Université Toulouse 1, with the Music Analytics Group at Bentley University

This talk will give an overview of projects at the frontier between data analysis and music (“music analytics”) and will present preliminary results of an analysis of the success of Kickstarter rock music projects, using features extracted from audio files with the Echonest/Spotify API (Application Program Interface). We also discuss current state of the art in defining measures of distance between music...