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Favoriting October 30, 2017: Andy Rehfeldt changes songs to very different genres. Tech + musical genius!

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Artist Track Images Approx. start time
  Andy Rehfeldt, composer and musician, turns popular songs into different genres while preserving the vocal tracks. Also, a Halloween-inflected AI brain remixes ideas for new Halloween costumes. Mark is assigned one of them.
Tomaš Dvořák  Game Boy Tune   Favoriting    
  Mark's intro  
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0:00:36 (Pop-up)
The Cars  Just What I Needed (Andy Rehfeldt re-composition)   Favoriting   0:20:12 (Pop-up)
  Interview with Andy Rehfeldt  
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Nirvana  Smells Like Teen Spirit (Andy Rehfeldt re-composition)   Favoriting   0:32:57 (Pop-up)
Mary Poppins  Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Andy Rehfeldt Death Metal version)   Favoriting   0:45:06 (Pop-up)
AC/DC  Back in Black (Andy Rehfeldt re-composition)   Favoriting   0:44:35 (Pop-up)
The Animals  House of the Rising Sun (Andy Rehfeldt re-composition)   Favoriting   0:55:02 (Pop-up)
Michael Jackson  Man In The Mirror (Andy Rehfeldt re-composition)   Favoriting   1:00:54 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Mark Hurst:

At left, an X-ray image of Hamburger Helper.
  6:05pm
Bea:

Skeptech was AWWWESOME! Can't wait for the third one!
  6:05pm
melinda:

Hi folks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Mark Hurst:

Thank you, Bea! Hi, Melinda!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Mark. The video of Skeptech 2 will be available at some point, right? Maybe in the WFMU archive or on the Vimeo web site? I wasn't able to watch the stream live last Thursday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Mark Hurst:

Hi Ken, yes - we will have most of the show available via video archive - just have to do some editing to get it ready. Should be ready sometime soon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
queems:

do they offer an opt-out of the face scanning? i opted out of the fingerprint scan, and i sure as hell don't want anyone scanning my face
Avatar 6:14pm
Fox:

What is going to happen with regards to the MTA Cards being phased out so people can just use their phones? It's a terrrrrrrrrible idea, and the "what happens if you lose your phone?" problem is totally going to pave the way for people to get implants.
  6:14pm
tinkle bear:

that squid metaphor, running a veal-factory, was awesome.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

@Fox - I envision a dystopic scene where there are signs that point the non-phone people off to the side and they trudge off into some hallway/tunnel and are never seen again.
Avatar 6:18pm
Jeff:

I have to assume that the whole face-scan thing will be added to the set of possible authentications to unlock the phone (along with the good old PIN and presumably still fingerprint) which you can choose from.
Avatar 6:18pm
glenn:

same thing in toronto. i don't have a smart phone, nor do i want one, and if they phase out cash payments or tickets / tokens, i'll just drive everywhere. i won't be the only one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
northguineahills:

@Fox: Yep, my wife constantly leaves her phone at work or any other place. Although, she'd realize she left it before getting too far unless she ubers home.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
queems:

oooh i want a copy of this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
northguineahills:

or bikes home
  6:22pm
Bea:

Me too - this is Just What I Needed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
northguineahills:

This is good creative fun. A good frontal lobe filter at the end of the workday.
Avatar 6:23pm
herb.nyc:

Lovely version- I'd imagine Ric Ocasek would be not amused.
  6:24pm
Dean:

Re: phones, I think we need some sort of device to anchor them to a single location, say, a cord. That way we'll always know exactly where the phone is. An additional benefit would be that we'd only be distracted by the phone during those times of day when we're in that same space.
  6:25pm
Dean:

Those shred videos are brilliant.
Avatar 6:26pm
Alexander Graham Bell:

Oh, Dean. Dean, Dean, Dean.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
chris:

if anyone wants to read a basic, very understandable, overview of machine learning, deep learning, ai... medium.freecodecamp.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, Northguineahills & herb & Bea & queems!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
northguineahills:

We're WFMU'ers, we're well versed in all genres....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
northguineahills:

This is hilarious, even better then Weird Al!
  6:37pm
melinda:

I like this Teen Spirit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
northguineahills:

Remind of the concept of Atom's Senior Coconut, but using more then one genre for the output.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
chris:

that was great.
  6:40pm
melinda:

That made me lol
  6:43pm
Bea:

OMG - congrats on the pledge! I think there was a Panda Clam costume option?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Folsom:

Can we get a recap of the costumes or at least put them on the comment board?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
northguineahills:

What Folsom said, and please post the costume next week!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Back to the subject of Apple face recognition, I just encountered an article: www.fortune.com... "Why Apple Made a Bad Bet on Face ID"
Avatar 6:46pm
Fox:

I can hear you silently laughing, Gio!!!
  6:47pm
herb.nyc:

Samurai Angel reminds me of sat night live's Samurai Baker. And of course, he is a master baker!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
Mark Hurst:

Here is the link to the costumes
aiweirdness.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
ultradamno:

Sexy Purbie Lampire!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
Folsom:

How about cupcake pants!
Avatar 6:51pm
Number Six:

@herb: I thought Clay was FMUs master baker. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
northguineahills:

I'd say panda clam or starfleet shark.

My brain is telling me I should leave work. Thanks Mark!
  6:52pm
melinda:

I like Panda Clam, but Potato Man would allow for some flexibility of interpretation.
Avatar 6:54pm
Number Six:

Would you have to wear a muffin top with the cupcake pants?
  6:54pm
Yami:

Potato Man! Although I prefer punk tree...
  6:54pm
Dean:

The costume names remind me of Kenneth Koch's marvelous book-length poem, "When the Sun Tries to Go On."
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Folsom:

Panda clam - panda costume with clam ears!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
chris:

best interpretation yet!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
chris:

fwiw, i like star trek shark
  6:57pm
kimzilla:

Potato man!!!
  6:58pm
Dean:

... O
Real! The magistrate, say "group," bower, undies
Disk, poop, _Timon of Athens_...

--and later--

A horse is waiting for the submarine's
Feathery balcony....

--Marvelous juxtapositions.--
  6:58pm
Jeff:

Potatoman foreve!!!!!
  6:59pm
Jeff:

Pledge forthcoming
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
chris:

great stuff! thanks, Mark!
  7:02pm
Yami:

I'm picturing him as a papa rellena btw love the monkey chant its the best way to end a show !
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

AI assisted mashup humor is what botnik is about: www.botnik.org
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