Bang on a Can Cantaloupe Music

Enhanced CD Place the CD in your computer to watch the name of each #1 hit and artist as "Billboard" plays.

Referenced in hundreds of internet blogs with over 175,000 hits on his site, Dubois's BILLBOARD is a composite of all the Billboard #1 Hits from 1958-2000. DuBois analyzed all 857 songs digitally, and created a "spectral average" - a sonic summation of all frequencies in the song - for each one. He then allocated each song 1 second for each week it was #1 on the charts. The resultant 37-minute-long piece contains beautiful washes of sound - and serves as a unique chronicling of the history of US pop charts, and the songs' continually-changing longevity, tonality, and production.

DuBois applies this theory to two other classics - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, both books in 5 minutes ("Clavier"); and the entire soundtrack of Casablanca ("...Time Goes By").

A genius's redefinition of how we think about and listen to music, the resultant disc is an ambient masterwork. "I didn't write this music, and I didn't curate this music. I'm just figuring out a way to present it for people to listen to." -- DuBois on NPR's Studio 360