SiC – David Sidwell

Two of my favourite songs are Judie Tzuke’s beautiful “Stay With Me Till Dawn” and Pink Floyd’s “Breathe” from Dark Side of the Moon.

So it was with great interest I discovered a mashup of the two. Mashups are not remixes per se, but are usually two or more songs intertwined. In this case it’s Floyd’s (original) music playing whilst Tzuke sings her (original) lyrics at the same time.

This means taking the original 1970s recordings and using a digital audio program like ACID or Garage Band to adjust them – or selected parts of them – to match up. This software can (time) stretch one without changing the pitch (key). Or adjust the pitch without the time. Or even beat-match; adjust the tempo of one song to match the other.

I’m sure this has serious concerns from a legal sense, but I’m looking at it from a musical and technology view.
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I had a look at the stack of equipment in my TV room. It really needs to be rationalised! Amp, MC500 network media player, VCR, DVD, STB etc My ideal would be the Australian Z500 network DVD player with on-board STB and hard drive…which really turns it into a Home Theatre PC (HTPC). Dream land.

A HTPC would enable me to rationalise the MC500, DVD and VCR into the one box. I would keep the current external STB as I don’t like the idea of having to boot a PC just to watch TV. The HTPC would have a tuner card too; hence I could watch one, record another.

A tech mate is about to build his MythTV box; enabling him to build a very high quality HTPC using free and open source software. I’m following his adventures with interest.

Digital photo editing and pasting people into photos. Melbourne Age, Green Guide, Livewire section. November 17, 2005