24 Hours Of Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Ermintrude the Flying Cow writes "Ever wonder what "Ode to Joy" would sound like if stretched to 24 hours? Now you can find out. 9 Beet Stretch is the result of running Beethoven's 9th Symphony in a digital stretching program, turning the one hour piece into a 24 hour attention span acid test. Thankfully, for those of us who know our limits, it's been cut into 19 parts."

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This could be as much fun

[TerryAtWork]

as watching grass grow....

Ever wonder ?

[tmark]

Ever wonder what "Ode to Joy" would sound like if stretched to 24 hours?

Uhh, no ?

Re:Ever wonder ?

[Kipper the Llama]

I did, then the pot wore off.

Re:Ever wonder ?

[Carp Flounderson]

Ever wonder if these guys are paying their music webcasting royalties? I'm going to rat them out to Sony (copyright holders of "Ode to Joy"). I'm tired of seeing people like this think they can get away with playing whatever music they want online without considering the rights of the artist. Apparently musicians aren't allowed to make a good living through their craft anymore just so these guys can pull stunts like this.

Re:Ever wonder ?

[Anonymous Coward]

The "Ode to Joy" or the entire 9th symphony for that matter is a work in the public domain (and has been so for a very long time).

Fixing that little loophole with retroactive copyright is no doubt on the RIAA's to-do list. After that, they're going after the Ionian and Aeolian scales. Finally, they'll copyright sine waves.

Re:Ever wonder ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha! You fools! I downloaded the 24 hours, spliced it together, and sped it up back to the original speed. From now on, this is how I get all my music! Screw Kazaa!

suicide scherzo

[nastro]

Yet another way to get little Alex to try to off himself, O my brothers.

19?

[limekiller4]

I just gotta know... Why 19 parts? Not 24? Not 48. Not 12. WHY 19?? I could see if they cordoned off each file to represent a fixed timelength of music, which would result in different filesizes, and thus the count would be screwy, but even that isn't the case.

Re:19?

[NeoSkandranon]

If they were worried about musical value and meaning, they wouldnt have stretched a classical masterpiece horribly out of shape =p

24 seconds.

[Trusty Penfold]

It would be better compressed to 24 seconds - the neighbourhood dogs would go apeshit.

It's okay.....

[Newer Guy]

But it drags a bit....

Re:What?

[Yebyen]

Seems to me they must've been looking for something fun to slashdot. "24 solid hours of music? That'll go down like CowboyNeal's Mom in a cheezy porn flick!"

Err, Isn't That What You Don't Want?

[Myriad]

Why do content producers insist on using RealAudio? Give me a real player and I'll listen to to the stream. I'm not installing spyware on my machine.

Isn't the Real Player precisely what you are trying to avoid? :)

Change the freakin name!

[AltImage]

At 24 hours, I don't think "Ode to Joy" is really appropriate anymore.

Then again, isn't an ode a song or poem in remembrance to something lost? In that case it may be all too fitting.

Re:I have only one question...

[alfaiomega]

I have only one question... Why?

Finally someone who has more time on their hands than I do.

Because you're so busy posting such "Why?" questions?

Next up: 4'33" by John Cage.

[Blaede]

Oughta be good.

Heres a better way to waste your time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Try the doom 3 alpha, its frames are stretched out one by one.

Re:how's the stretch come out?

[Salsaman]

Well, I am streaming it now, but I don't hear anything at all. Seems as if they have slowed it down so much it's below the audible range...

So this is how Kubrik did it !?!

[corvi42]

Wow, this sounds exactly like the opening 20 minutes of blackness to 2001! Now we finally know what Kubrik was doing - he was torturing a reel-to-reel copy of Beethoven's Ninth, cool!

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[Dr. Awktagon]

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(Before you mod down, remember, this is ART.)

Just killing ...

[mtec]

time :)

i'm thinking no

[plateau]

If Beethoven sounds like Ligeti when slowed, does Ligeti sound like Beethoven when sped up?

I did this with a Natalie Portman jpeg

[wackybrit]

I took one of those pictures of Natalie Portman topless on the beach, enlarged it to 50,000 by 50,000 pixels, and I spend my days nestled about 3,000 pixels into her left nipple. It's a really nice place.

Re:Brian Eno

[Andrewkov]

Wow, I always wanted to simulate the pain and drug induced fuzzyness of being stuck in a hospital bed while imobilized in a cast. Now I can!!

<comic book guy>

[Anonymous Coward]

Worst story ever
</comic book guy>

Re:how's the stretch come out?

[Anonymous Coward]

this is how we can make music without paying those blood-thirsty composers! ha ha ha!
imagine "Gone With The Wind" with a slow "mission impossible" theme

Re:sssssoooouuuunnndddsss iiiinnnnttteeerreeessstt

[Cruciform]

Ah! My freakin' eyes!

Re:sssssoooouuuunnndddsss iiiinnnnttteeerreeessstt

[10am-bedtime]

there is a typo: tttttooooo should be tttttoooooooooo.

you're welcome.

thi

Re:Yet Another Way...

[MonTemplar]

Beethoven's response: "Speak Up! I'm deaf, you know!" :)

Sorry, but it had to be said...

Re:I have only one question...

[GNUman]

SETI signals, space noise ambience... how about:

cat /proc/kcore > /dev/dsp

Now, that's something different =)