The Swinger
May. 23rd, 2010 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnEveryone's posting this this weekend! I'd better do the same before you've already seen it.
The Swinger, by Tristan Jehan
It's a demonstration of a little sound manipulation routine that stretches one beat and then compresses the next in turn, forcibly introducing a swing rhythm to songs whether they want it or not. Sweet Child O' Mine and particularly Enter Sandman become absolutely hysterical when mutated in this way - the library's available to download if you want to attempt it on your own library, but I don't have Python installed here.
I think it really appeals to my preferred musical genre's habit of taking songs and then (sometimes accidentally) doing really inappropriate versions of them. Kai Hansen did It's a Sin, for example - according to one interview, he'd seen Neil Tennant saying that he hated metal, and then went off and did the cover specifically to wind him up.
The Swinger, by Tristan Jehan
It's a demonstration of a little sound manipulation routine that stretches one beat and then compresses the next in turn, forcibly introducing a swing rhythm to songs whether they want it or not. Sweet Child O' Mine and particularly Enter Sandman become absolutely hysterical when mutated in this way - the library's available to download if you want to attempt it on your own library, but I don't have Python installed here.
I think it really appeals to my preferred musical genre's habit of taking songs and then (sometimes accidentally) doing really inappropriate versions of them. Kai Hansen did It's a Sin, for example - according to one interview, he'd seen Neil Tennant saying that he hated metal, and then went off and did the cover specifically to wind him up.
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Date: 2010-05-23 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-23 06:57 pm (UTC)If nothing else, it's rare for a song to take a Tom Waits song and produce a version where the lyrics are less intelligible. (Audible?)
My first thought is that this would be rather interesting to do to 90% of Tom Waits songs.
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Date: 2010-05-23 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-23 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-23 08:29 pm (UTC)It also reminds me that I saw a small interview yesterday where they talk about Unarmed, and it appears they really did naively expect Helloween fans to have enough of a sense of humour to get the idea behind it.
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Date: 2010-05-23 08:40 pm (UTC)I've literally been sat here for about three times the length of the video, speechless. Hold on.
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Date: 2010-05-23 08:41 pm (UTC)