MetaFilter posts tagged with pitch

"We'll open another can for dessert!"

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:20:57 -0800

John Kricfalusi pitches a cartoon featuring the talented anger of George Liquor [ Part 1 | 2 ]

A world in which knowledge is always a double edged sword

Electric Dragon — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:15:23 -0800

The Wire - David Simon's original pitch and series bible. "At the end of thirteen episodes, the viewer - who has been lured all this way by a well-constructed police show - is not the simple gratification of hearing handcuffs click. Instead the conclusion is something Euripides or O'Neill might recognize: an America at every level at war with itself." [Previously.] (via)

The New Yorker: The Gerbil's Revenge

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:09:30 -0800

Tourists black out reflective retinas in snapshots before printing them, and millions of people refer to strangers they’ve never spoken to as friends, because they’ve connected through a social-networking platform. [...] It should come as no surprise, then, that singers sometimes choose to correct recorded flaws in pitch with modern software, like Antares’s Auto-Tune.

Sasha Frere-Jones on auto-tuning, in The New Yorker. Non-print version

Via Antares's own site, interestingly enough.

Previously: 1, 2

Sasha Frere Jones's personal site, New Yorker blog.

If it really works, it's the coolest audio production tool ever.

stenseng — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:10:24 -0800

Celemony are a bunch of crazy German software engineers known best for making Melodyne, a family of top of the line pitch correction tools. Apparently they've recently figured out how to do what they do with polyphonic audio. I can't begin to explain how cool this is. Just watch the video.

Judge blocks articles, bloggers republish

nospecialfx — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:58:29 -0800

Judge blocks damaging articles, bloggers republish them in defiance here and here. Will the Kansas City utility board sue them, too?

YaleShmale

Dome-O-Rama — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:33:23 -0800

YaleShmale "Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn't necessarily mean you're smart." The pitch certainly proves the point.

Fun!

adampsyche — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:17:21 -0800

Woman controls blender by making noises at it. Is it wrong that I find this strangely erotic? [sfw, via]

+8% pitch & tempo

iffley — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:13:26 -0800

Morrissey is Debbie Harry at +8% pitch & tempo (MP3). More high-pitched artists here. More about Morrissey here)

Slithy_Tove — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:52:45 -0800

The Pitch Drop Experiment. Everyone should know by now that 'glass is a supercooled liquid' is an urban legend. But there are true liquids that appear solid at room temperature. Pitch, a petroleum derivative, is one of them. The ~~Blair Pitch Pro~~ Pitch Drop Experiment, begun in 1927, drips pitch out of a funnel, at roughly one drop every ten years. It has a webcam [RealPlayer req.], with a short canned loop of audio explaining the experiment's origins. I tell you, I'm on the edge of my seat watching this thing!
Swiped from The Cellar.

quirked — Sat, 07 Apr 2001 08:30:24 -0800

4/5 - "I'm loosening up my arm tonight. I don't want to bounce it in." 4/6 - Bush's first pitch a major league bust. Gee, I hope now we don't have to go to war to regain our mojo.