Monday, 17 January 2011

Jurassic Park theme slowed down: loses bite but becomes ambient brilliance

Photo: http://www.lost-world.com

Slowing down Jurassic Park's dinosaurs 1000 times would make the film a fairly dull affair. The velociraptors wouldn't be such clever girls. But do it to John Williams' theme and you end up with an admittedly sedate but brilliantly haunting hour-long ambient music track.

The track, which can be heard below was created by Georgia-based musician Birdfeeder and was picked up by Slash Film.

Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) by birdfeeder

It's currently attracting quite a lot of online attention and is an example of a recent trend in slowing down recognised music, as pointed out by SoundCloud user Reuben Tobias:

"There was a well documented version of Justin Biebers 'U Smile' by musician Nick Pittsinger, who used the software 'PaulStretch' to slow the track by 800% to achieve a similar effect. That seems to have ignited a bit of a craze for this sort of thing, however, although this may not be an original idea, it is a fantastic piece of music, both at its original tempo and its new state."

I wonder what Mr Williams thinks of it.