Re: stretching words

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Per, thanks for this info. I had actually wrote, then scrapped, an email 
to LD a few months ago asking whether this technique was possible using 
any kind of current technology. I thought it was some brilliant idea I 
had come up with!...now I see it's been around forever (in computer 
years)! I just love the idea of making the dimension of time absolutely 
plastic, or even static, with regards to playback. Do you know of any 
audio examples where I might hear this?

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com
 
>> I've never heard Max Headroom but an educated guess gives that the 
>> voice may have been created with this classic technique:
>>
>> 1. Keep the audio to be "stretched" as an audio file.
>> 2. In some music software, make a playback loop of the file.
>> 3. Minimize the loop length until only one tiny slice is looping, 
>> making a buzzing sound.
>> 4. Align the loop's start point and loop point to a controller. Now 
>> regard the loop as "a window" that you can move through the entire 
>> audio file. Forwards or backwards. When the looping "playback window" 
>> moves by a syllable it will sound more stretched the slower you move it.