Wonderful, I've got to listen to this when I've got more time.
How did mankind survive before SoundCloud? Experiments like this music would probably have been a hard sell in those dark ages (except when you're John Cage).
This reminds me of one of the greatest pieces of ambient music of all time --- Justin Bieber's _U Smile_. It's old hat now, but just in case someone hasn't heard it...
That was very cool. Thanks for sharing. I wonder how people even thought to do something like this? It seems that it's at least a scene now based on the suggested videos.
Most of these videos I believe were created with Paulstretch, an open source audio time stretching application specifically optimized for creating nice ambient textures for very long stretches.
This is really interesting, although I found it difficult to listen to, as I have spent a lot of time listening to the original. If I try to mentally block this from being connected with Satie's Gymnopedie, I enjoyed it much more.
That's not true for all classical remixes. William Orbit's version of Barber's Adagio for Strings is one of my favourite dance tracks.[0] (although not the Tiesto remix).
If you like Satie's Gymnopedies, then I also recommend his Gnossienes[1] and Faure's Pavane.[2]
I like Brian Eno's Discreet Music [1], which provides three slowed-down variations on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (the first one rather amusingly named Fullness of Wind), eventually reaching tempos where you can hardly discern the original melody.
Max Richter also brilliantly "recomposed" Vivaldi a few years ago, turning his Four Seasons into something like a modern work.
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Work strangely well.
AFAIK might work well with any HN story
How did mankind survive before SoundCloud? Experiments like this music would probably have been a hard sell in those dark ages (except when you're John Cage).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bidHnEekXpE
Paul Nasca gives a brief overview of the algorithm here: http://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me#TOC-PaulSt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2i-Qxxpec
http://rjp-hosted-files.s3.amazonaws.com/dark_ambient_clarks...
Thanks!
That's not true for all classical remixes. William Orbit's version of Barber's Adagio for Strings is one of my favourite dance tracks.[0] (although not the Tiesto remix).
If you like Satie's Gymnopedies, then I also recommend his Gnossienes[1] and Faure's Pavane.[2]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbIHxKh9bk
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYH5xh6gd0c
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQ36TFvNoM (this recording played by Faure. Many modern recordings are at a slower tempo, such as this short orchestral version from the Berliner Philhamoniker conducted by Simon Rattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhiVuIRw4tM)
Max Richter also brilliantly "recomposed" Vivaldi a few years ago, turning his Four Seasons into something like a modern work.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discreet_Music
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter#Recomposed_by_Max_...