Musical pilates? Paulstretching is the latest meme sweeping the internet – high quality timestretching of well known tracks. Named after the paulstretch application, part of the HyperMammut suite by ZynAddSubFx, a Justin Bieber track timestretched to 800% started it all off on Soundcloud earlier this week.

Paulstretch is available for Linux and Windows on the Hypermammut SourceForge page – and for Mac OS X here: http://music.cornwarning.com/2009/04/29/paul-stretch-extreme-audio-time-stretching-for-os-x-to-download/. Check out the SoundCloud groups Paulstretched and 800% Slower for more background info and a growing list of remixes.

My own effort was a paulstretched Ke$ha which made her sound very hung over… someone get this poor girl a couple of paracetamol and a strong hair of the dog:

http://soundcloud.com/irixx/kesha-tik-tok-morning-after-the-night-before-mix

Beatbeatblog has just posted an awesome review of the first two parts of my series 'In shadows and in light' - check it out at http://beatbeatblog.com/posts/2010/8/1/art-installation-pt1.html ....this brings us nicely onto a piece of work that IriXx is developing at the moment - 'in shadow and in light' - a 4 track composition (parts i & ii have surfaced so →

Just completed the second part of my four part series 'In shadows and in light'. I'm building the pieces into a Set on soundcloud so you can hear the work in progress: http://soundcloud.com/irixx/sets/in-shadows-and-in-light

I've been busy with music over the last few months - firstly, I completed my remix of Nez Erok's haunting track 'Beautiful'. The original track is shortly to be released as a single on Ocean Drive Records. My dubstep remix is hosted on my soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/irixx/nez-erok-beautiful-irixx-remix - check out more remixes on Nez's soundcloud. I've also completed the first of a four →

Last night Youtube issued a statement regarding the 'Content ID' takedown orders including the Downfall parodies mentioned in my previous post. Youtube even went so far as to link to Brad Templeton's Downfall parody as an example of fair use - something of a public apology, perhaps. But their statement still leaves some questions to be answered as to the level →

News this week that Constantin Film AG were issuing DMCA takedown orders claiming the Youtube Hitler parody meme, re-subtitling the climactic scenes of the movie 'Downfall', constituted copyright infringement, saddened the internet community. Of course none of the creators of the clips would have the funding or means to mount a legal challenge against the takedown orders. Except for one. Brad →

Trifonic are brothers Brian and Laurence Trifon, who, since receiving their first break via the Creative Commons remix website ccMixter, have committed to releasing stems of their tracks into the Commons for musicians to remix. I've very much enjoyed listening to their debut album Emergence and decided to create a remix from various tracks, featuring the haunting vocal by Amelia June →

I've added two new pieces to the music page - some seriously filfy dirty breaks, and Down the rabbit hole, a somewhat hypnotic return to the ambient sounds of 'enigmatic xii: beacons". "We will not be held responsible for any hearing impediment or damage caused to you by excessive exposure to this sound." (thanks to acclivity @ freesound.org for the sample!).

My track 'enigmatic xii - beacons' is included in the latest pertin-nce net label release 'things are bad in haiti'. Label owner Maxime Tanguay's family were directly affected by the earthquake: Hey all! As some of you know, our label has a special connection to the earthquake ravaged country of Haiti - so in the tradition of our charity net releases we →

Just got my Redhead windscreen in the post yesterday for my Zoom H4 which has made a vast improvement on the quality of my outdoors recordings. I always liked the quality of sound from my H4, but was getting frustrated by mic bump due to the Zoom-supplied shield which was just a basic piece of black foam which slotted over →