[tweetmeme source= ‘plamere’ only_single=false] One of my favorite hacks at last weekend’s Music Hack Day is Tristan’s Swinger. The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect. Some examples:

Every Breath You Take

Money for Nothing

Cream

I Will

Update – a few more tracks -by request:

Enter Sandman

Daft Punk’s Around the world

Sweet Child O’ Mine

(one of my favs)

Don’t Stop Believin’

White Rabbit

(this one is hypnotic)

Swinger uses the new Dirac time-stretching capabilities of Echo Nest remix. Source code is available in the samples directory of remix.

Be sure to check out some of the other Music Hack Day hacks like Six Degrees of Black Sabbath, Jason’s Songbird Visualizer or the Artikulator.