OMS Overview
We have developed a new kind of Model and Ratings Engine for music. We call the ratings engine and the underlying model “OMS”.
As a ratings engine, OMS assigns a numeric rating to any kind of music - classical, popular, world-music, … The underlying model also allows us to make many interesting comments on musical topics.
The purpose of this blog to introduce OMS to the world. The style of this blog is informal and somewhat freewheeling. If you are interested in a more formal and detailed discussion of OMS, visit our main website .
OMS draws on ideas from Artificial Intelligence; but even more important, it developed from intensive study of many musical masterpieces, both classical and popular. “OMS” stands for “Organized Multi-Stimulation”: We think of a listener abstractly as a neural network with a large number of nodes that respond to music in various ways. We think of a piece of music as a set of organized stimuli that operate on these nodes in an intense highly-coordinated manner.
OMS regards all music as stimulation, and primarily a pleasurable stimulation. The OMS ratings engine gives a rating of the breadth and depth of stimulation provided by a piece of music. We have discovered ratings as low as 9 (simple children’s music) and has high as 680 (great works by Beethoven).
Advisory: There is nothing intrinsically “bad” about a low rating. It’s really okay if you like to sing “Eensey Weensey Spider”.
For further information about OMS, look at the FAQ section of this blog as it evolves.