THE VIDEO SHELF · extreme audio time stretching
Justin Bieber 800% Slower
A Justin Bieber song slowed down 800% with the PaulStretch program, turning a pop track into a long ambient drone.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as the canonical example of extreme audio stretching making pop music into something entirely different and relaxing.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- turinpt2
- Topic
- extreme audio time stretching
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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You can't mention PaulStretch without linking to Justin Biebier's totally amazing ambient orchestral piece, U Smile: [VIDEO] I'm not even kidding. It's superb. Put it on, turn the lights out, imagine yourself on an alien beach, and feel the stress drift away...
david-given on Hacker News · 2015-04
In Paul's Extreme Sound StretchFor the lazy, here's the song mentioned: [VIDEO] This was created using paulstretch [1], a program to transform normal audio using extreme stretches. I've tried it on a few songs I liked and it does really an excellent jobs of creating extremely fluid ambiances. The …
epsylon on Hacker News · 2013-06
In Music to Let you Concentrate
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.