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Justin Bieber 800% Slower

turinpt22 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2012-2024
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A Justin Bieber song slowed down 800% with the PaulStretch program, turning a pop track into a long ambient drone.

HN points to it as the canonical example of extreme audio stretching making pop music into something entirely different and relaxing.

Music theory, synthesis & productionInformation theory & signal processingMusic performance & songs#paulstretch#ambient#drone#timestretching#audioexperiment

4 comments from Hacker News

@tgv2024 · in “My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)”

The 8x slow-down argument is so naive, it's bad. Perception and interpretation change with speed. Listen to a song you slowed down. It becomes something entirely different. Compare link and ▶ this video If you can't see the difference at normal speed, there is no difference.

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@david-given2015 · in “Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch”

You can't mention PaulStretch without linking to Justin Biebier's totally amazing ambient orchestral piece, U Smile: ▶ this video I'm not even kidding. It's superb. Put it on, turn the lights out, imagine yourself on an alien beach, and feel the stress drift away...

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@epsylon2013 · in “Music to Let you Concentrate”

For the lazy, here's the song mentioned: ▶ this video This was created using paulstretch [1], a program to transform normal audio using extreme stretches. I've tried it on a few songs I liked and it does really an excellent jobs of creating extremely fluid ambiances. The triple parentheses on the first video is a nod to Sunn O))) [2], an American drone / noise / ambient metal band which features super long songs with droning saturated guitars (playing on vintage cranked up to 11 Sunn Model T amps) and usually no drums. One of my favorite songs from them and perhaps one of the best introduction to their music for the non-initiated is titled Alice [3], though perhaps it's not as representative of their music as, say, Ra at Dusk [4]. (Sunn O))) was heavily influenced by the pioneer drone metal band Earth, and their mindblowing album Earth²: special low frequency version [5]). [1] link [2] link [3] link [4] link [5] link

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@ChrisNorstrom2012 · in “Show HN: Nasdaq Dubstep”

lol You've succeeded. Well it sounds awful. Just the way dubstep does. For your next project try using "paul stretch" to create a serene ambient track. It's software that allows you to stretch audio tracks from 101% to 800% and up. Here's Justin Bieber's song "U Smile" 800% slower ▶ this video You could use all sorts of data to make ambient music. Heck, call it Ambient Data and release numerous tracks. Make dark themed tracks with rain in the background and ambient music created using how many wars have happened in human history and when.

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