Listen, guess and share with the new interactive website refrain.dk. You can view the mood of Europe during the Eurovision Song Contest and compare the songs with pop hits and historical Eurovision songs. Interesting discoveries can be shared with your social network friends.
Make sure that your mobile, tablet or portable computer is within reach when Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is held in Copenhagen. On a novel website refrain.dk you can monitor the European ‘mood’ of the event in real time during the semifinals and final. ReFrain is the first and most comprehensive multi-aspect analysis of Eurovision and western pop songs.
Share your opinions
”We hope that the Europeans will use ReFrain to share their opinions, but also the historical aspect of the Eurovision Song Contest through its 59 seasons and maybe discover interesting song matches. We also wish to spark an enriched and surprising music experience – not just focus on the usual and well-known songs,” says Jan Larsen, Associate Professor at DTU Compute and Director of Danish Sound Innovation Network.
The inventor of the website is CoSound – a multi-disciplinary research project led by DTU Compute with participation of Danish and UK research institutions, commercial partners and end-users such as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). The Danish Sound Innovation network acts as innovation partner in CoSound that facilitate knowledge dissemination and assist in branding that Denmark has global position of strength in sound research and business.
Match songs
ReFrain offers two distinct functionalities. ’Mood of Europe’ displays the current mood of Eurovision Song Contest. By selecting individual countries participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 the positive and negative opinion of the songs can be viewed in real time – from positive to negative. The analysis is based on Twitter tweets, which is a service already used by many of the 170 million viewers.
The other function ’Song Match’ can be used to compare Eurovision songs with all 1,202 historical Eurovision songs, dating back to the start of the event in 1956, and more than 10,000 popular pop songs. DTU Compute has developed the song comparison algorithms on several aspects. When searching for a specific artist, year, country or song title similar songs are retrieved based on music aspects such as tempo, rhythm, mood, melody, energy, and timbre.
”The platform used in the website offers a new way to navigate music, but is also a nice way to demonstrate the complicated mathematical algorithms we develop at DTU Compute,” says Jan Larsen.
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