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Bicycle Built for 2,000 (2009)
- kbutler 9y agoWithout Flash: https://vimeo.com/3571124 https://vimeo.com/3571124
- sixQuarks 9y agoit sounds so creepy
- esaym 9y agoIndeed. I almost don't see the point other than to show off amazon turk :/
- mmanfrin 9y agoIt's borderline terrifying. Reminds me of those terror-clown video games at old arcades.
- odiroot 9y agoAudio version of uncanny valley?
- r00fus 9y agoIf zombies could sing. Seriously, part of choral performance is you (as a singer) need to constantly adjust your pitch and timing with others to produce harmonious output. This would be far more interesting if such an effort could be done based on the individual samples by manipulating the audio in real-time.
- kbutler 9y agoAutotune the samples? Lots of software available to do that, but then you get "Intensive Hair Unit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8coX8VkUKY8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8coX8VkUKY8 I think Bicycle creator's intent was more to demonstrate the "Musical Talent of the Crowd" - the creepiness was a bonus.
- ant6n 9y agoAutotune should sound less odd if the correction is relatively small.
- felipemnoa 9y agoGreat song for a futuristic dystopian movie where AI's have taken over.
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- sushisource 9y agoPerfect injection of surrealism into my day
- rdiddly 9y agoThanks for the ear worm, Harry Dacre from 1892!
- DerfNet 9y agoThere's something... poignant? about how this sounds so dreary, and is the end result of mturk workers getting paid pennies to record their voices.
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- sp332 9y agoInteresting how many people went flat.
- cardamomo 9y agoThis brings to mind the work of composer Paul Lansky, who has been playing with voices to similar effect (albeit with a different process) since the 1980s. Here's a brief description of one piece, "Notjustmoreidlechatter:" http://acousmata.com/post/104620348/notjustmoreidlechatter http://acousmata.com/post/104620348/notjustmoreidlechatter His work can also be heard on Radiohead's Kid A: http://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/radiohead.ml.html http://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/radiohead.ml.html
- setr 9y agoOnly the voices should be different; why are the background instruments also out of sync?
- usrusr 9y agoNobody was singing the whole song, only individual, isolated notes (both for regular instruments and the phoneme synthesizer) went through the mturkers, in homage (machinage?) to how the original was programmed. Personally, I would have preferred a version that kept the "voice" from the original and only replaced the non-voice instruments.
- lilfatbitch 9y agoIt's 2113 and all those voices are now dead
- Dangeranger 9y agoIf you have never watched Aaron Koblin's TED[0] talk about visualizing humanity with crowdsourced data I cannot recommend it enough. [0] https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin
- chrismorgan 9y agoWhen I visited the US a few years back I brought a recently-purchased recumbent tricycle with me and made a cycling tour of it as well as speaking at the conference I had come for; I had been looking into things like duty tariffs simply to assure myself that it was fine to take with me and bring back without needing to worry about it, and I observed interesting specific items in the list of duty tariffs. First of all, understand that the legal definition of bicycle in Australia is something along the lines of “a primarily human-propelled vehicle with at least two wheels and a seat for each passenger”. One item in the duty tariff list was a bicycle with seven wheels and five seats or something very much like that (it was a few years ago, can’t remember precisely). I presume that, for such an item to have got on the list (in 2003, I think it was added) someone had imported an item matching that description. Still more fun was that when I mentioned it to someone (might have been the bike shop I got the recumbent tricycle, or Greenspeed themselves; can’t remember) they fancied they knew the vehicle in question (and wasn’t particularly impressed with its efficiency, being fairly shoddily made). So I was all psyched up for an article about a bicycle built for 2,000, imagining something like the Greenspeed Anura, a delta trike where you can remove the front wheel and hitch it to the back of another Anura—so that you could, if you really wanted to, have an utterly unworkable articulated trike built for 2,000. (I fancy it wouldn’t corner very well, but I’d be fascinated to see how it’d work.)