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24 Hours Of Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Posted by Hemos on from the hold-that-whole-note dept.

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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  1. I have only one question... by Zandromeda · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why?

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

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  2. Unreal by whereiswaldo · · Score: 3, Insightful


    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.

  3. timestretching and electronic music by phaxkolumbo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Timestretching has been featured exclusively on electronic music tracks for quite a while now... Just think those drum'n'bass records with the words 'selekta' etc.

    Apparently Aphex Twin once was supposed to remix a track, so he timestretched it to a couple of milliseconds and used it as a snare drum, and when the bloke came back to get the ready remix, he just grabbed a random DAT-tape and gave it back to him...

    One Nine inch nails strack features the words ' erase your head' stretched to the duration of the track (ummh, 5 minutes or so), so you can hear the words if you fast forward the track.

    And this is not even mentioning Autechre (and many others) which these days just live on the digital artifacts caused by timestretching.

    But, still, it's cool to find use for this sort of thing... i wonder what they used to create the 24-h stretch

  4. Re:strange people by Jonathan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And today someone who filmed a building for each hours would be arrested as a terrorist suspect...

  5. Re:19? by TekReggard · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The reason why they use 19 is related to musical content. If you divided it into 48, or even 24 even pieces, then you might accidentally stop it in the middle of a brilliant musical motion.



    In other words, whoever broke it up into sections was more worried about musical value and meaning, than file size and numerical sense. Think of your favorite piece of music from any genre, you wouldnt want it to, take a break, RIGHT in the middle of your favorite stanza, verse, etc.

  6. Spielberg too by freeweed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Spielberg did it as well for AI - he took a 10 minute story and stretched it out into 3 hours.

    Oddly enough, 24 hrs of B's 9th seems to go by much quicker than Steven's attempt...

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