opsound: free love, free music Listen and Write - Dictation Cadavre Exquis Ill-disposed critics in 1925-1930 gave further example of their ignorance when they reproached us for delighting in such childish distractions, and at the same time suspected us of having produced such monsters in broad daylight, individually, and more or less laboriously. In fact, what excited us about these productions was the assurance that, for better or worse, they bore the mark of something which could not be created by one brain alone, and that they were endowed with a much greater leeway, which cannot be too highly valued by poetry. Finally, with the Exquisite Corpse we had at our command an infallible way of holding the critical intellect in abeyance, and of fully liberating the mind's metaphorical activity. All of this is as valid on the graphic as on the verbal plane. Andre Breton [From the catalogue of an exhibition at La Dragonne, Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris, 7-30 October 1948, entitled "Le Cadavre Exquis: Son Exaltation", p.5-7, 9-11.1
API: Docs API Key The first step is to sign up for an API key. Starting in April 2012, we will refuse API queries without a valid API key. Basics Free Music Archive provides a basic API to access artist, album, track, genre and curator data, in XML, JSON or JSONP format. You can access all the data by formatting URLs like so: For example: ...will return a list of FMA curators in XML format. API Examples API Demo - apidemo.freemusicarchive.org a basic demo to create static playlists using FMA + Echo Nest FMA Radio - fma.jsawruk.com advanced static playlists using FMA + Echo Nest searches for similar artists, mood, style, license Unity3D Playlists - Special APIs We have a special API for performing a search over artists, albums, and track names; here is an example: Which returns: We make the list of recently added tracks available at: