Before ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax died in 2002, he began an enormous undertaking: the creation of a computer program that could analyze songs in the way that one might analyze a DNA sample – identifying the many individual threads that come together to form the song we hear. While that project remains uncompleted at the Lomax archives, host Dean Olsher asks what we could learn about ourselves, and about music, by breaking songs down in this way. Produced by Jamie York.
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