The Echo Nest Remix API offers a very cool tool that lets you re-create one video using segments of another. Here, Keith Moon’s drum track from “Who Are You” gets re-made by Animal. Dancing by Rita Moreno.

(via Music Machinery)

Eric Archer’s Lumicon sound camera takes light input and treats it as analog audio signal, making for some beautiful, warm sounds. He says, “Its like eavesdropping on a world of sounds that were never intended to be heard.”

You really should listen to some of his other examples.

(via computermusicblog)

This digital sculpture by Daniel Franke is a visual representation of Ryoji Ikeda’s “One Minute.” Pretty.

(via Synthtopia)

Nick Seaver: Fergie Study #8 (video)

From the archives, this video is actually a class project I made last year.

The audio is a shortened version of one of my Pop Studies, which is made from a sample of the intro to “Glamorous” by Fergie. I took that sample, pitched it around and layered it, and then listened to what happened when I used Ableton Live’s time-stretching feature in extremes. Time-stretching is supposed to allow you to change the speed of a sample without affecting the pitch, but beyond small changes, it introduces interesting artifacts.

Since the original sample has no strong beat, I wanted to see how the perceived tempo would change as these artifacts piled up. The distinct beat/melody heard around 2:55 in the video is just the result of time-stretching artifacts.

The video is a one-second sample from the official music video, looped and cut up using Jitter in a patch I put together. Little production side note: because I couldn’t install Jitter on the class computer I used to make this, I had to create a freestanding patch that altered the video based on data in a text file. In class, I just edited the text file to make edits to the video. Here is the whole text file, just for kicks:

0, shift clear;
1, shift 1 2 1;
39, shift 1 2 0 2 1 1;
79, shift 2 1 0 3 3 1;
119, shift 3 3 0 0 0 1;
159, shift 0 0 0 2 4 1;
200, shift 2 1 1 3 3 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 1 2 1;
260, dim 90 60 loop 2;

400, 0;
480, 0;
720, 0;
1200, 0;
1380, 0;
1870, 0;
2000, 0;
2220, 0;
2340, 0;
2550, 0;