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If you don’t have a DAW like Ableton you can use Audacity, an open source music software, to slow down time. Audacity comes with an effect called Paulstretch, named after an old program called Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch that was used to make this iconic YouTube video. It allows you to slow down audio files by inordinate amounts, turning silly little love songs into monumental drone landscapes. You can discover hidden melodies buried in the waveform and imagine life outside of time.
Sep 13, 2022
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A lot of people don't know this, but Justin Bieber actually started out as an experimental sound artist who was forced by popular demand to speed up his music to make catchy pop songs.
This is the Real Justin.
Jokes aside, this video from 2010 is a wonderful application of a sound plugin called PaulXStretch which seamlessly extends audio files to create majestic ambient/sound design pieces that have an otherworldly feel to them. The plugin is free to use, open source, and available for multiple OSes (Mac, Windows, Linux etc.). I've yet to be disappointed with the results of this tool and the works that other people have created with it.
If you're a musician, sound designer or someone who just likes experimenting with audio, watch the linked video to hear an example and give the plugin a try 😊
Sep 16, 2024
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For music production nerds out there
In Logic Pro X the BPM will auto reset to 5 if you do this. I loaded up a project with samples of orchestral arrangements and drum loops - everything breaths and comes out of the speakers and headphones in thickness and separation, you can feel the space between each note and the funk/groove melt within your ears. simply put you can chop and screw/slow and throw entire groups of strings or basses or vocals to very cinematic effect
If you want to get demented you can add automation for volume or tempo changes
Jul 16, 2024
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y'know how everybody loves sped up songs, or slowed down and reverbed songs? this extension lets you do that on any online video, to your exact specifications (putting it in the key you want, speeding it up or slowing it down as much as you want)
this might just be a weird me thing, but there are certain songs that i think just sound so much better in any key other than the original. can't explain it, it just makes sense in my brain.
will say that it does delay the audio slightly on whatever video u use it on, and the delay will remain in that tab, but if you close out of it and open a new one, everything goes back to normal, so i don't mind it much. give it a spin if you'd like
Apr 15, 2024
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In 2006, a YouTube account called Artssiren uploaded a series of clips for an amateur documentary called “New York City Subculture ‘96.” The doc is set in the East Village and mostly features downtown squatters hanging out on St. Marks stoops talking about tattoos, philosophy, and love. Characters include Kia, a topless punk who confronts a pig, Bernie, a squatter who wants to convince you he doesn’t look like a squatter, and Randy, the most emo boy in America. The film was made by Nia Janeen Brown, who now goes by Chloé Le Roux. She deserves a retrospective.
Sep 13, 2022
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It’s a weird way to end a recommendations list, but there are things you should just keep to yourself. Also, you should be comfortable with the fact that there are things from which you’re gatekept. Anyway, thanks for reading my recommendations lol.
Sep 13, 2022
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When I first moved to New York, I made friends with poets by frequenting a little library off the Morgan L called Mellow Pages. Back then poets were obsessed with calling anything a poem: tweets, blogs, videos, facebook event invites. Irony hadn’t died yet and new sincerity was just beginning, which made it all a bit insufferable, but I stuck around for the poems. A lot of those people either moved away, moved on, or got canceled, but one thing that remains from that time is cunny4. For over ten years, Bunny Rogers has been posting her poetry to her Tumblr. Her writing is explicit, private, tender, funny, perverse, and intimate. She is the greatest poet of our generation. It’s poetry, just poetry, no bullshit.
Sep 13, 2022