Thursday, November 24, 2005

Let them sing it for you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A Swedish website that allows you to type in any text you want, and it sings it back to you! It's fun to identify the songs just from a single word. Also, when you give it a word it doesn't know, it beeps so your song now sounds like an Eminem song on MTV. This thing is terrific!

Also from Erik Bunger's website is a live performance of "Variations on a theme by Casey & Finch," described below.

The piece is based on a the idea of, with a ten-man-band, recreating the sound of a CD getting stuck. The chorus of the disco tune That’s the way I like it has been chopped up into
short fragments, the order of the fragments rearranged and the result written out as a score.
It's amazing and precise and it's fun to watch the musicians counting out the stuck-CD cadences.

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