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Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#21

Post by plamere »

Magenta wrote: post #17
fwr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fantastic. Steve Reich would be proud.

That might just be the first time Steve Reich has been mentioned in relation to Gangnam Style! ps To the author/s (if you end up seeing this): was there a reason you didn't center the content on the page? Might look a little better. Just a suggestion :)

magenta - I spent about 10 minutes trying to center it all, but I couldn't get Raphael.js to behave, so since it was a weekend hack, I moved on. But yes, it would look much nicer if it was centered, even more so if a designer did the design ...

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by AlexanderHektor »

Anybody else hate these jumps in commercials to fit the 30s or whatever budget they have? Always makes me wonder if they think noone would notice? Duh, of course people do! :)

Btw, quick bug report: doesn't work for me if open in non-active tab in Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on Mac OS X 10.8.

Good fun and now do an automated version where ppl can paste their youtube links. Greetings, lx

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#25

Post by lazerwalker »

sedev wrote: post #16

This is a very clever hack and I adore it for that, but it's also a sneaky statement about meaning, and I adore that too. It's like the literature world's cut-up/exquisite corpse work: if you can disassemble an original like this and put it back together in a way that we humans are inclined to extract meaning from, does that change the meaning that you perceive in the original work?

What's unique about Gangnam Style is that it's a cultural meme in America that isn't in English. It would be really interesting to see what sort of different sentiment this project would inspire if applied to a song where Americans could actually understand the lyrics and cultural references, or if it was shown to a South Korean audience.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by EGreg »

obiefernandez wrote: post #23

My 4 year old sat and watched and sung along with this in delight for about 30 minutes (when we turned it off, cause like, enough already...) Someone should analyze why this song is so catchy.

The electronic music and sugary pop beat. Also the irreverent fun on the video. Compare lady gaga music.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#29

Post by wpietri »

mef wrote: post #8

This is really awesome. They cut the entire song into one-beat segments of sound and video, and then categorized each beat by similarity to other beats in the song, and then after each beat there's a random chance that, instead of playing the next beat, the playback will transition to a different but similar-sounding beat from elsewhere in the song. More info at the author's blogpost: http://musicmachinery.com/2012/1…

Nice! If you want to explore the structure, you can control-click on a beat and it will only play the related beats.

From what I can tell, the color indicates the number of beats in the jump set. Black: 1, Blue: 2, and then more the redder it gets.

I can't figure out how to get out of that mode, though, other than to stop and restart it.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#30

Post by denzil_correa »

AlexanderHektor wrote: post #24

Anybody else hate these jumps in commercials to fit the 30s or whatever budget they have? Always makes me wonder if they think noone would notice? Duh, of course people do! :) Btw, quick bug report: doesn't work for me if open in non-active tab in Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on Mac OS X 10.8. Good fun and now do an automated version where ppl can paste their youtube links. Greetings, lx

doesn't work for me if open in non-active tab in Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on Mac OS X 10.8

I can confirm this bug too.

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