This is pretty trippy.

There's a guy digitally manipulating songs that are in a minor key, into a major key.

So here's REM's "Losing My Religion" reworked from minor to major. It shouldn't work at all, but it does!!! It's a happy song now lol

http://vimeo.com/57685359

Very cool!!!!! i didn't think it would good but i was suprised

They should take a really depressing like REALY REALLY depressing and put it in major.

Impressive work, but.... I rather hate it.

I would like to see this done on other songs, though.

[Edited 1/21/13 23:07pm]

Love it!

Militant said:

This is pretty trippy.

There's a guy digitally manipulating songs that are in a minor key, into a major key.

So here's REM's "Losing My Religion" reworked from minor to major. It shouldn't work at all, but it does!!! It's a happy song now lol

http://vimeo.com/57685359

Whoa. This is a brilliant idea. I'm not even a huge REM fan, but I agree with the person on the Vimeo comments who said it made them feel off balance. I listened to the original immediately afterward, and it was like being tilted back upright and feeling my feet kind of sink into the earth again. (Hopefully that doesn't make it sound like I do a lot of drugs...)

Anyhow, I vote they do Mad World next.

hah! amzing

maybe a silly technical queston but... how you do this? can you achieve this just from the CD alone or do you need the master tape with seperate instrumental tracks? or is it even some simple software converter working in real time? if yes, then I want an App for that on my iPhone so I can scale any song in the library

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[Edited 1/23/13 4:13am]

sampling certain sections of the song with the the G major chord and using elastic audio to transpose it to A instead of Am etc

then superimposing an acapella vocal ontop of the work.

It'll work because of the modalities of the melody, certain nonharmonic tones will shift into harmonic tones, and vice versa.

pretty cool though