Click to download: slowing down songs

Chris Salmon finds the point where Justin Bieber and Sigur Rós intersectLast week, a 20-year-old producer from Florida named Nick Pittsinger decided it might be fun to slow down U Smile, a syrupy ballad by ubiquitous teen pop moppet Justin Bieber. Using a free piece of software that slows songs while maintaining their pitch (bit.ly/songstretch), Pittsinger made the track almost 11 times longer, stretching it from 197 seconds to more than 35 minutes. As soon as he posted it online (bit.ly/bieb...

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