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bing crosby remixed
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I gave an assignment to a group of aspiring sound designers not too long ago. The task was to take two completely different tracks of music and find a way to make them work together and sound somewhat uniform using only editing, transposition and time compression/expansion. They all had an afternoon to complete it. Here’s my ‘remixed’ example. Even caught some of the ii-V harmony in the second half!
Thanks to choreographer Cherice Barton for asking me to attempt this in the first place! It was a fun experiment. Makes me think what other wild juxtapositions are out there waiting for discovery.
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