Microsoft Songsmith

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Microsoft Songsmith is a Music Composition Software for Microsoft Windows, launched in early 2009. Songsmith immediately generates a musical accompaniment after a voice is recorded. The user can choose different styles of music genres either Pop, R&B, Hiphop, Rock, Jazz, Reggae, or the like and change the tempo of the song. Songsmith has a feature to change the properties of the song which is either to make it joyful, sad, jazzy, and so on.

The limitations of the software, and the misinterpretations of vocal melody without a backing track has led to a wave of demonstrations, wherein isolated original vocal tracks of well-known songs are run through Songsmith, resulting in grossly mismatched chord sequences.

Herpetology

Meaghan
so she's not specialising it anything?
murielc
she's going for pathology
she wanted to do that since high school
but she's doing hepatology right now
Meaghan
so lizards and stuff?
murielc
no you dork
that's herpetology
she's a DOCTOR
livers
Meaghan
oh
ew

340 days til Christmas

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Ok it's been awhile but it's also been less than 3 months so that's an accomplishment. Happy 2009! I spent my holidays in Europe and that was lovely. Highlights include:

• eating a chocolate banana crepe while watching the Eiffel Tower sparkle at night
  
  
• architecture
  
  
• getting blown over at the top of a cold, snowy Swiss mountain
  
• Roman history
  
  
• gelato in the rain
  
  
• Michelangelo's Pieta - I have never been moved by a sculpture before seeing this
  
  
• not having anything stolen out of my lost luggage, which returned to Toronto 4 days after I did.
  

Other than that, we have also acquired a 40" LCD TV and home theatre system, a new sofa (yes, guests will be invited and welcomed shortly), I've actually seen and hung out with some friends recently (including you, yay you!), I have winter tires on my car (she is much happier), and I'm working a lot.

I'm going skydiving when it warms up. Who's in?