1 HN user recommended this demo1 month2019–2023score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN mentions it as an early example of corpus-based concatenative synthesis and audio-matching techniques.
A 2006 promotional video for sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, a music software project that analyzes and reassembles sampled audio and video in real time, tied to themes of sampling and copyright.
“It splits music videos into small portions ahead of time and then later it reassembles them on the fly according to audio input.” (HN, 2021)
Reminds me of this other thing from years ago called “sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!” [this video] It splits music videos into small portions ahead of time and then later it reassembles them on the fly according to audio input.
Splits music videos and reassembles them on the fly to audio input
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