A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports

Posted by vinhnx 3/30/2025

A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports(www.openculture.com)

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tquinn 4/2/2025|

Semi-related in the same vein of background ambient music:

For fans of the film Heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHP4qbgAN6s One of my absolute favorites to work to.

Lutzb 4/2/2025||

Perfect opportunity to point out that there is a 23x slowed down version of Brian Enos Windows 95 startup sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIfbdi41ho

andyjohnson0 4/2/2025||

I bought Bang On A Can's version soon after it was released in 97, and it remains one of my favourite pieces of music to code to. For reasons that I can't adequately explain I prefer it to the (itself wonderful) original.

cypherpunks01 4/2/2025||

Deconstructing Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports:

https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-musi...

It's a must-read! It has analysis of all Eno's tape loops and an interactive note randomizer. Mentioned in the article's related content but it's worth an extra shout.

Fun to play around with for anyone who likes the album or ambient music in general.

tra3 4/2/2025||

Well I know what I’m listening to at work tomorrow. Wonder if this is going to make my code happier or sadder.

Also now wondering if there’s any research on how music affects (cognitive) performance.

flowerthoughts 4/2/2025||

I heard of a study many years ago that concluded that listening to music you like made you drive your car a bit faster, regardless of the pace of your preferred music. Not sure that translates to cognitive performance, but might suggest listening to music at the gym is useful.

djmips 4/2/2025||

Your code will no longer be afraid of crashing.

cage433 4/2/2025||

For those who find this finishes all too quickly, before it really gets started, here's Igor Levit's performance of Satie's Vexations

https://www.youtube.com/live/Uu_03mUPgHU?si=ggJYSJH8SUy0AcKO

chaosprint 4/2/2025||

sounds like paulstretch is heavily used. you can get similar results when applying this to almost any sont.

anal_reactor 4/2/2025||

God is this annoying. How can I listen to music where a single note stretches longer than my window of attention? My mind perceives this the same way as the sound of my fridge working, except much louder.

reverendsteveii 4/2/2025|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLTjESyuQk

Fun fact: it seems to be somewhere around 33 beats per minute that people lose the connection between one beat and the next and therefore lose the ability to perceive rhythm. Though oddly enough this video asserts that and then immediately disproves it by having a band play a 33 BPM song while the audience counts along.

mykowebhn 4/2/2025||

Or, on Thursday afternoons, you can listen to one of my favorites

https://youtu.be/TTHF2Dfw1Dg?si=PKvJpnG88hjV2-St

reverendsteveii 4/2/2025|

I'm glad to see that someone finally got the hang of Thursdays. I never could.

meta-level 4/2/2025|

Not sure anyone posted it already, also great: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOVdjxtnsH8

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