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15 August 2011

Creepy! "Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.... They were not given additional information."

post by: BitterOldPunk at: 15:04 | 8 comments

Holy crap, it's the soundtrack to my nightmares...

posted by JoanArkham 15 August | 17:00

Dude, if I have nightmares I'm blaming you.

posted by deborah 15 August | 17:17

Creepy?? That is AWESOME.

posted by BoringPostcards 15 August | 17:36

Sounds like the music of Mordor.

posted by dg 15 August | 18:42

I wish they had the sound clips people were asked to imitate.

posted by crush-onastick 15 August | 21:27

Cool. I listened to the individual tracks, too.

posted by MonkeyButter 15 August | 21:32

So what's the musical reasoning for this effect? Is everyone just flat/sharp? Is it the distribution/averaging?

posted by Eideteker 16 August | 07:52

First computer to sing, 1961.

Hal 9000 sings Daisy Bell.

posted by TheophileEscargot 16 August | 13:41

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