Comments | thestark: Ambient Experiment. The mathematics of audio. The beauty of stillness.

thestark

Ambient Experiment. The mathematics of audio. The beauty of stillness.

Feb 18, 2011 15:27

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you could put music into extreme slow-motion? It's like taking a walk on a sunny afternoon filmed on a high-speed camera. Darker music lends itself to scarier scenes. Brighter music retains it's brightness, just extends itself from 4 minutes to 40 or 400. By changing the time scale of a track you can hear ( Read more... )

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thedr9wningman February 18 2011, 23:46:43 UTC

I tried using PaulStrech once. I failed miserably. It simply wouldn't work.

I've wanted to create things, though, and utilise this. I'm a big post-rock fan, and this sort of stuff lends itself to that.

I will try to download this once the overlord isn't halting my abilities to download things.

thestark February 19 2011, 00:24:10 UTC

Being a Mac user, I've come to expect a certain level of polish when it comes to applications in general. PaulStretch's UI is lacking in this regard. However after a few twiddles and failed experiments I was able to get things working enough to meet my stringent expectations.

A bit of a one trick pony. I'll stash it in my back of tricks. Right next to my CureMoLator and my AutoMagicCedrichine.

thedr9wningman February 20 2011, 17:55:31 UTC

I think it may be Mac native. When I tried pulling it down, it felt a lot like Unix to me. Maybe that's why it didn't work.

Can I have a CureMoLator and an AutoMagicCedrichine? Those sound neat!

thestark February 20 2011, 18:08:40 UTC

Bwahahahaha.

Native Mac application it is not. Definitely *nix.