A. agent, River Phoenix as an ethereal computer-age juvenile delinquent, Dan Aykroyd as an ex-con gadget freak, and David Strathairn as a blind master of sound tracing.

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The core idea, Westergren says, was to create a form of recommendation entirely blind to popularity, and focused instead on the sound of the music itself.

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It may sound idealistic, but ever since he watched his grandmother go blind from Diabetes, he wanted to do something that would help people see again.

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