The Art of Chipmunking
I had planned to write a book review for today but I started reading some Asimov along side of the book I had planned to review and so still have a chapter left to read. So the review will be tomorrow.
Instead I would like to talk to you about chipmunking, the name I like to give to increasing the speed of music so it sounds like it is being sung by the chipmunks, if you don’t remember the chipmunks then look them up! The point of the matter is by doing this to my music collection I have trained my brain to process the songs faster to the extent where I can no longer listen to normal music without feeling it is somewhat to slow.
The more alert among you would have noticed that this principle has been applied to increasing the effectiveness of audio learning, and certainly I would feel comfortable listening to someone speak at 150% to even 165% of their actual speed and I intend to put this into effect during my second year of university.
And another benefit? Some songs sound tremendously better when chipmunked, I will leave you to find out which ones.
August 17th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Kanye West is a master of this … if you listen to the samples looped in the background of Testify by Common Sense you’ll find a great example.