{"id":4359,"date":"2010-05-27T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:37:52","slug":"geek-out-clever-hack-makes-any-song-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Geek Out: Clever Hack Makes Any Song Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4363\" title=\"Axl Rose Swinger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/axl_swinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/axl_swinger.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/axl_swinger-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This hack is simply brilliant: <strong>The Swinger<\/strong>. It takes a song and time-stretches the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fplamere%2Fsweet-child-o-mine-swing-version&amp;&amp;color=ff7700\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fplamere%2Fsweet-child-o-mine-swing-version&amp;&amp;color=ff7700\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong> Sweet Child O Mine (The Swinger Version)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fteejay%2Fevery-breath-you-take-swing-version&amp;&amp;color=ff7700\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fteejay%2Fevery-breath-you-take-swing-version&amp;&amp;color=ff7700\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong> Every Breath You Take (The Swinger Version)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tristan Jehan\" href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~tristan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Jehan<\/a> created this at <a href=\"http:\/\/sf.musichackday.org\/\">Music Hack Day<\/a> San Francisco and is now my hero.<\/p>\n<p>Source code, more info, and more tunes put through <strong>The Swinger<\/strong> at <a title=\"The Swinger at Music Machinery\" href=\"http:\/\/musicmachinery.com\/2010\/05\/21\/the-swinger\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Music Machinery<\/a>.\u00a0(Thanks, <a title=\"MikeWriter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikewriter.net\" target=\"_blank\">Mike<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Photo: Hacked Road Sign Warns of Douche\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=234\">Hacked Road Sign Warns of Douche<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Hack\/Remix: Queen\u2019s Bohemian Rhapsody On Old School Computer Gear\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1667\">Hack: Queen\u2019s Bohemian Rhapsody On Old School Computer Gear<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Vid Remix: Smooth Jazz Metallica, Death Metal Louis Armstrong, and Creed Shreds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=3715\">Vid Remix: Smooth Jazz Metallica, Death Metal Louis Armstrong, and Creed Shreds<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Hear Friday Fives on Unnecessary Umlaut\" href=\"unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?tag=fridayfive\" target=\"_blank\"> MP3: Rock Out With The Umlaut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hack is simply brilliant: The Swinger. It takes a song and time-stretches the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. Take a listen: Sweet Child O Mine (The Swinger Version) Every Breath You Take (The Swinger Version) \u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022 Tristan Jehan created this at Music Hack Day San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[1700,1704,687,81,1703,1701,192,1699,1702],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-tech","tag-axl-rose","tag-echo-nest","tag-hack","tag-hacked","tag-music-hack-day","tag-python-code","tag-remix","tag-the-swinger","tag-tristan-jehan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}