Ambient Experiment. The mathematics of audio. The beauty of stillness.
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 things you wouldn't have heard before, spaces in between the spaces.
I've taken a recent composition of mine and run it through an application called PaulStretch - some of you might recognize this from a post I made a while ago about the Justin Bieber track which got put through the same process.
What's interesting about the PaulStretch app (I'm running a Mac OS X port of the app) is that the algorithms used tend to dither the moments with a warmth and ambience that other simple timescale/stretch/shift apps fail miserably at. I am a fan of glitch and noise, but often those kind of audio manipulations are very tinny and digitized. PaulStretch is a wonderfully interesting way to take a new look at audio in a new and listenable way.
I've put a composition I've written and then slowed with the app up at Soundcloud.com.
I'd love to read your comments on it.
http://soundcloud.com/thestark/an-extended-exit
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