Infinite Gangnam Style

Post by yuchi » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 9:18 PM UTC

plamere wrote: post #21

Magenta wrote: post #17

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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 ...

Post by chengsun » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 9:35 PM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #29

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.

Post by rohamg » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

vl wrote: post #34

lazerwalker wrote: post #25

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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.

>cultural meme in America that isn't in English Yep, it would be interesting to read about things we miss - lyrics, and meaning of obvious references we don't get. For example, I think that dude in the elevator is an actor I saw in some movie, but I don't know if I'm correct. Obviously scene in sauna has some humorous meaning, but, again without lyrics it's unclear.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

cburgas wrote: post #14

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…

such a simple concept resulting in nearly endless fun :)

Post by kbutler » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 11:01 PM UTC

lazerwalker wrote: post #25

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.