16 Mar
2004
16 Mar
'04
10:44 a.m.
Frank Barknecht:
BTW, one of the beautifullest examples of extreme stretching isn't
Jane Fonda, but the "Beetstretch" project of Leif Inge:
http://www.notam02.no/9/ who stretched Beethoven's 9th Symphony -
which originally is about 1 hour - to be 24 hours long. The
audio-files are several gigabytes large, an obvious use case for
Bittorrent.
Maybe Kjetil would elaborate a bit, how this was done, as I read that
he was involved in the Beetstretch?
It was made with common lisp music.
The stretching-function was made by the
composer and programmer Anders Vinjar. The function
is basicly based on the make-granulate function with parameters
finetuned for the current stretch. Not very advanced,
most credits for the nice sound goes to Bill Schottstaedt
for the make-granulate function.
I did the dirty work, setting up scripts, high-level
lisp programming, doing conversions, fixing disk-space etc.
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