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Music Machinery

Paul Lamere

Music technology, recommender systems, software development.

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Welcome to the new Music Machinery.

This is Music Machinery, a newsletter about Music Technology.

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    I've been building music recommenders and playlisting engines since the iPod era. When I'm not writing code, you might find me using machines (aka synthesizers) to create bleeps and bloops.

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