I’ve posted before about Shepard tones and other audio illusions, but here is another one to wrap your head around. Jean-Claude Risset, who created the Shepard-Risset Glissando (a continuous version of the Shepard tones) also produced the rhythmical equivalent – a beat that appears to get faster and faster (and faster and faster). By layering
Continue reading »Where is the Drama?
Paul Lamere of The Echonest (and musicmachinery.com and one of Audiograins’ favorite music hackers) has produced a new web app at the Berlin Music Hack Day. Where is the Drama takes any song input recognized by Spotify and analyses it to find the 30 seconds or so of highest drama, defined as the portion of
Continue reading »Teaching Your Computer What ‘Warmer’ Sounds Like
Sound Engineers and musicians will rejoice with the release of the SAFE project, or Semantic Audio Feature Extraction. The vague descriptions often used to get a particular sound in a mix, are being crowdsourced and applied to the set of VST plugins available for download from the SAFE project website. Users can download the plugin
Continue reading »Friday Fun – 99 Red Balloons played on Red Balloons
Musician Andrew Huang enjoys a good musical (or ice bucket) challenge. Here he is playing Nena’s 99 Red Balloons on a Red Balloon, with the help of some clever sampling and editing!
Continue reading »Hyper-Yakety-Lapse
Yesterday Instagram announced Hyperlapse, their new smoothed time-lapse app for iOS. This will inevitably lead to a proliferation of cool timelapse videos. So I thought it would be necessary for people to add Yakety-Sax (aka the Benny Hill Theme) to their timelapse videos. I’m not sure exactly if I’m proud of this but, I went
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