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A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports
- tra3 2y agoWell I know what I’m listening to at work tomorrow. Wonder if this is going to make my code happier or sadder. Also now wondering if there’s any research on how music affects (cognitive) performance.
- flowerthoughts 2y agoI heard of a study many years ago that concluded that listening to music you like made you drive your car a bit faster, regardless of the pace of your preferred music. Not sure that translates to cognitive performance, but might suggest listening to music at the gym is useful.
- djmips 2y agoYour code will no longer be afraid of crashing.
- morsch 2y agoI'm rather fond of The Black Dog's Music for Real Airports, myself. https://ra.co/reviews/7404 https://ra.co/reviews/7404
- madmoose 2y agoMusic for Real Airports is one of the albums I put on to block out the world when I’m trying to get work done.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoThe Black Dog's "Music for Photographers" is probably my favorite album of all time. Yet it's almost completely unknown. Everyone should give it a listen.
- tomduncalf 2y agoAh yeah love this album!
- Mistletoe 2y agoThanks for introducing me to this. This is the kind of music I like and had never heard of it.
- jquaint 2y agoGreat song. For anyone curious how to produce something that sounds like this, paulstretch is the way to do it. https://sonosaurus.com/paulxstretch/ https://sonosaurus.com/paulxstretch/ My personal favorite use of this: https://youtu.be/XiKWfcy-Z70?si=iJTP0XTEAAObI_rU https://youtu.be/XiKWfcy-Z70?si=iJTP0XTEAAObI_rU
- barrenko 2y agoAh yes, pop some ketamine, turn this one, and never return.
- keyle 2y agoMind blown. Thanks!
- pbmahol 2y agoThe paulxstretch completely obliterates phase component of audio input. Its not really way to do it if you want real output.
- viraptor 2y agoDoesn't phase only matter if you want to mix it with some other sound? If you're editing the final version you're going to be playing, what's the point in preserving phase?
- pbmahol 2y agoYou can not just preserve original phase when doing time stretching, there are "smarter" algorithms that try to derive "correct" phase, while the paulxstretch just make it random values, maybe for extreme stretching values it doesn't matter for ambient music but for general music and sounds its not that trivial.
- itomato 2y agoThere is some signature compression that comes with paulstretch that sounds exactly like the output of a square wave interpolated to a sine. You can see, hear and almost taste it if you stretch white noise. Tonality makes no difference.
- curiousigor 2y agoIt seems like the website is region locked? I haven't seen an 405 error mentioning a specific country yet though, it seemed interesting. https://imgur.com/a/AiY9xMJ https://imgur.com/a/AiY9xMJ
- jvdvegt 2y agoNo problem here from The Netherlands... I wonder what's so specific about Slovenia. But the site is mostly a link to this 6 hour track: https://youtu.be/ZWUlLHv7-64 https://youtu.be/ZWUlLHv7-64
- defrost 2y agoMight be the Potica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHEPzEKTcss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHEPzEKTcss
- ocal5 2y agoIn this field : Windows 95 startup sound, from Brian Eno as well : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc
- dep_b 2y agoIt has that calming quality, and I would hear it frequently as I would still shut down my computer after every session.
- okeuro49 2y ago"Sitting among the gleaming steel fixtures and softly glowing concrete lines of the modernist Cologne Bonn Airport on a sunny Sunday morning in late 1977, en route to his homebase, the perennially nervous flier recoiled once again at the canned pop pleasantries mindlessly piped into such an inspired space. The music was not only an afterthought but also insulting to the idea that you would soon climb into a sleek metal tube and be propelled by engines through the sky at 40,000 feet. “I started thinking, ‘What should we be hearing here?’ I thought most of all you wanted music that didn’t try to pretend you weren’t going to die on the plane, ” Eno, laughing but serious." https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/brian-eno-ambient-1-music-for-airports/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/brian-eno-ambient-1-mus...
- pimeys 2y agoI never thought to see a link to a Pitchfork Sunday review on HN. I've been reading them with my morning coffee every Sunday for years.
- soulofmischief 2y agoIt's a ritual of mine to play Eno's Discreet Music during takeoff. Something about it is just so enveloping, introspective and morose and no other piece of music hits me that way. So I figure, if I'm going to die, I want it to be to Discreet Music.
- shlant 2y ago> It's a ritual of mine to play Eno's Discreet Music during takeoff. Mine is Giegling Mix 07. Less ambient and more 4/4 + breakbeat but beautifully emotive. Even better during sunset
- latentcall 2y agoThis is mine too. This Is Not is one of if not the best mixes I’ve heard in my entire life. This and Live at Planet Uterus.
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- cage433 2y agoFor those who find this finishes all too quickly, before it really gets started, here's Igor Levit's performance of Satie's Vexations https://www.youtube.com/live/Uu_03mUPgHU?si=ggJYSJH8SUy0AcKO https://www.youtube.com/live/Uu_03mUPgHU?si=ggJYSJH8SUy0AcKO
- matteason 2y agoIf anyone would like to play with something more interactive, I'm testing out some new effects on Ambiphone, my ambient soundscape web app. The test version is at https://test.ambiph.one https://test.ambiph.one There's a basic playback speed control now (basic in as much as it doesn't preserve pitch) plus things like reverb and delay effects Here's some slowed-down ambient music: https://test.ambiph.one/?m=1-Slow+Realisation-ap50a25c60 https://test.ambiph.one/?m=1-Slow+Realisation-ap50a25c60 And a cat purring at 50% speed makes a pretty convincing lion: https://test.ambiph.one/?m=1-Lion's+Den-aa8a34c60e37f100ac50b28c72aj26c36ao100a59c38e15bd50a68c24 https://test.ambiph.one/?m=1-Lion's+Den-aa8a34c60e37f100ac50... (Audio may be a little glitchy on Android Chrome if you have lots of sounds playing - I'm debugging that at the moment)
- aloifran 2y agoHey thank you for sharing your project! I am really enjoying using it while working at home. A quick observation, the link to share a mix for the birthday is not clickable cause the save menu is clicked instead (yes I'm a QA Engineer). Great feature to save mixes!
- gherard5555 2y agoAlternative title: Journalist discover the paulstretch software
- bevan 2y agoGary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified) just made a worthwhile documentary about Eno: https://www.hustwit.com/eno https://www.hustwit.com/eno It's only streaming right now and each streamed version is unique, riffing off of Eno's "generative" music.
- mykowebhn 2y agoOr, on Thursday afternoons, you can listen to one of my favorites https://youtu.be/TTHF2Dfw1Dg?si=PKvJpnG88hjV2-St https://youtu.be/TTHF2Dfw1Dg?si=PKvJpnG88hjV2-St
- reverendsteveii 2y agoI'm glad to see that someone finally got the hang of Thursdays. I never could.
- Synaesthesia 2y agoNot really necessary. So little happens in the original (in a good way)
- chaosprint 2y agosounds like paulstretch is heavily used. you can get similar results when applying this to almost any sont.
- kryptonomist 2y agoOne great musician to listen to during late coding sessions.
- Lutzb 2y agoPerfect opportunity to point out that there is a 23x slowed down version of Brian Enos Windows 95 startup sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIfbdi41ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIfbdi41ho
- CompoundEyes 2y agoInteresting bit there about music for facing mortality. An ambient classic from that same era is Steve Roach “Structures from Silence”. He had an NDE and that music is what he heard during.
- jqr- 2y ago> NDE Near-death experience. For those (like me) unfamiliar with the acronym.
- andyjohnson0 2y agoI bought Bang On A Can's version soon after it was released in 97, and it remains one of my favourite pieces of music to code to. For reasons that I can't adequately explain I prefer it to the (itself wonderful) original.
- ddxv 2y agoFor anyone else perusing the comments for more ambient music, I recommend Stars of the Lkd for anyone looking for similar feels. https://youtu.be/c4E6RO4muLU?si=6QbUatQXm0zzWy0N https://youtu.be/c4E6RO4muLU?si=6QbUatQXm0zzWy0N
- reverendsteveii 2y agoalso here to mention stars of the lid. I just found out about them and they're great. on the same youtube binge I also learned about Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and have become fascinated with their work as well https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCeYcG8gnFjGA5lUShHsz3yQ https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCeYcG8gnFjGA5lUShHsz3yQ
- anal_reactor 2y agoGod is this annoying. How can I listen to music where a single note stretches longer than my window of attention? My mind perceives this the same way as the sound of my fridge working, except much louder.
- reverendsteveii 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLTjESyuQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLTjESyuQk Fun fact: it seems to be somewhere around 33 beats per minute that people lose the connection between one beat and the next and therefore lose the ability to perceive rhythm. Though oddly enough this video asserts that and then immediately disproves it by having a band play a 33 BPM song while the audience counts along.
- tquinn 2y agoSemi-related in the same vein of background ambient music: For fans of the film Heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHP4qbgAN6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHP4qbgAN6s One of my absolute favorites to work to.
- zeristor 2y agoBrian Eno - Alternative 3 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AldyuIh5A https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AldyuIh5A I heard this music off on for decades, but couldn’t place it. I doubled down and only having a memory of it I was certain it was by Brian Eno. It took me a while to stumble upon it, it was music written for an ITV Science programme’s April Fool’s episode; which due to strike action was delayed until July. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_3 This comes up repeatedly with regards to conspiracy theories, I assume not by people who think the Moon landings are a hoax, that would be insane. Erm wait a minute…
- lend000 2y agoIf you like Brian Eno's music, you might enjoy Hiroshi Yoshimura. Wet Land is one of my favorite albums of all time.
- sebmellen 2y agoOnly on HN do we get these great music recommendations.
- mistrial9 2y agogreat to visit with Eno at his long-time music machine installation at the Palace of Fine Arts SF, so long ago.. a real artist!
- whalesalad 2y agodupe? this was on the homepage 4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520122
- meta-level 2y agoNot sure anyone posted it already, also great: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOVdjxtnsH8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOVdjxtnsH8
- cypherpunks01 2y agoDeconstructing Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports: https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-music-for-airports/ https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-musi... It's a must-read! It has analysis of all Eno's tape loops and an interactive note randomizer. Mentioned in the article's related content but it's worth an extra shout. Fun to play around with for anyone who likes the album or ambient music in general.
- dmazin 2y agoWhen the AI songs started happening, I've been hoping someone would make a very long version of 1/1 from Music for Airports. This is not that. I don't mean stretched out. I just mean that it gets interpolated outwards after the original composition ends. Does anyone know what can make that?
- LeoPanthera 2y agoThe Black Dog have a lovely Patreon where they personally answer comments. Have you considered asking them?
- omnimus 2y agoI would say only Brian Eno can make one. Maybe he made some other music thats continuation.
- kodomomo 2y agoTry https://play.generative.fm/browse https://play.generative.fm/browse. The endless aisatsana generator is pretty good, I'm sure there's an option that's similar to 1/1.
- cypherpunks01 2y agoI linked this page in another comment: Deconstructing Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-music-for-airports/ https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-musi... It's not exactly for 1/1, but scroll down to "Deconstructing 2/1" or "Deconstructing 1/2", then down to the music staves section - Hit "Start All", then roll the dice, and it will randomize the loop times! With a little javascript hacking I'm sure you can add more control over the loops and such. He has some samples for 1/1 tracks too, those could be looped or fed to some AI music software I'm sure to come up with some interpolated result too.
- ElijahLynn 2y agoListened to a bit of it and it seems like a decent analogue to East Forest's Music For Mushrooms which is 5 hours.
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- illegitimateegg 2y agoImagine what this would sound like for Another Green World