60+ recordings of Satie's Gymnopedie One played simultaneously

http://cookingwithsound.com/whats-even-more-beautiful-than-saties-gymnopedies/

by iamben • 10 years ago

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zimpenfish2• 10 years ago

Stands up surprisingly well as a piece of music in its own right.

brudgers• 10 years ago

Artist's webpage: http://www.heyexit.com/

camperman• 10 years ago

This is incredibly beautiful.

aaron695• 10 years ago

I opened and played this while opening this second and started to read

http://www.neverendingbooks.org/artisanal-integers

Work strangely well.

AFAIK might work well with any HN story

tempodox• 10 years ago

Wonderful, I've got to listen to this when I've got more time.

How did mankind survive before SoundCloud? Experiments like this music would probably have been a hard sell in those dark ages (except when you're John Cage).

adrianN• 10 years ago

Putting a link to an MP3 on a website is not that hard.

struct• 10 years ago

Reminds me of Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack. Fascinating audio texture.

david-given2• 10 years ago

This reminds me of one of the greatest pieces of ambient music of all time --- Justin Bieber's _U Smile_. It's old hat now, but just in case someone hasn't heard it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bidHnEekXpE

magic_beans• 10 years ago

Wow, I can't believe how lovely this is.

Yhippa• 10 years ago

That was very cool. Thanks for sharing. I wonder how people even thought to do something like this? It seems that it's at least a scene now based on the suggested videos.

soundwave106• 10 years ago

Most of these videos I believe were created with Paulstretch, an open source audio time stretching application specifically optimized for creating nice ambient textures for very long stretches.

Paul Nasca gives a brief overview of the algorithm here: http://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me#TOC-PaulSt...

earl_gray• 10 years ago

That reminds me of 'Truman Sleeps' from the Truman Show played, again, very slowly. It's a bit creepy... but I like to listen to it when I'm studying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2i-Qxxpec

zimpenfish2• 10 years ago

14x slowdown of Swede Mason's "Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9u0LxIWJk) makes for some epic dark ambient.

http://rjp-hosted-files.s3.amazonaws.com/dark_ambient_clarks...

david-given2• 10 years ago

I'm only a little way into this but I could swear this is the Planescape soundtrack.

Thanks!

phillc73• 10 years ago

This is really interesting, although I found it difficult to listen to, as I have spent a lot of time listening to the original. If I try to mentally block this from being connected with Satie's Gymnopedie, I enjoyed it much more.

That's not true for all classical remixes. William Orbit's version of Barber's Adagio for Strings is one of my favourite dance tracks.[0] (although not the Tiesto remix).

If you like Satie's Gymnopedies, then I also recommend his Gnossienes[1] and Faure's Pavane.[2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbIHxKh9bk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYH5xh6gd0c

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQ36TFvNoM (this recording played by Faure. Many modern recordings are at a slower tempo, such as this short orchestral version from the Berliner Philhamoniker conducted by Simon Rattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhiVuIRw4tM)

visarga• 10 years ago

Nordic ambient music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlSQekQSkBY (Rautavaara - Violin Concerto)

lobster_johnson• 10 years ago

I like Brian Eno's Discreet Music [1], which provides three slowed-down variations on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (the first one rather amusingly named Fullness of Wind), eventually reaching tempos where you can hardly discern the original melody.

Max Richter also brilliantly "recomposed" Vivaldi a few years ago, turning his Four Seasons into something like a modern work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discreet_Music

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter#Recomposed_by_Max_...

60+ recordings of Satie's Gymnopedie One played simultaneously

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