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1 HN user recommended this demo1 month2019–2023 score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mentions it as an early example of corpus-based concatenative synthesis and audio-matching techniques.

A 2006 promotional video for sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, a music software project that analyzes and reassembles sampled audio and video in real time, tied to themes of sampling and copyright.

“It splits music videos into small portions ahead of time and then later it reassembles them on the fly according to audio input.” (HN, 2021)

1 recommendations · 2 citations · Demos · partly dated

3 Hacker News comments

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@hoherd Dec 2023 Recommends
on HN thread How does Shazam work? (2022)
If this interests you, then take a look at sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, a music software project from 2006 that uses similar classifying techniques. [this video]
2006 music software project using similar classifying techniques

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@jcims Oct 2019 Cites it
on HN thread Principal Component Analysis
I'm not sure if i'm parsing this conversation correctly, but 'corpus based concatenative synthesis' reminds me of Scrambled? Hackz! - [this video]
Corpus-based concatenative synthesis demo
@codetrotter Jul 2021 Cites it
on HN thread Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use
Reminds me of this other thing from years ago called “sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!” [this video] It splits music videos into small portions ahead of time and then later it reassembles them on the fly according to audio input.
Splits music videos and reassembles them on the fly to audio input

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