{"id":39733,"date":"2004-04-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/04\/20\/beethoven-as-ambient-music\/"},"modified":"2004-04-20T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T07:00:00","slug":"beethoven-as-ambient-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040420-00\/?p=39733","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven as ambient music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notam02.no\/9\/\">Beethoven wrote ambient music<\/a>?\n  The people at NOTAM took Beethoven&#8217;s 9th Symphony and slowed it down  so that the entire performance takes 24 hours.  It&#8217;s actually quite nice  to listen to.  (I like  <a href=\"http:\/\/varpid.simnet.is\/9bs\/b921.mp3\">2.1<\/a> myself.)\n  [Rats,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/32510\">scooped by MetaFilter<\/a>.  Honest, it was in my queue!  Nobody will believe me; they&#8217;ll think  I swiped it from MeFi&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>  A few months ago,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/features\/feature.php?wfId=1724372\">  NPR covered a similar experiment with the movie <i>Psycho<\/i><\/a>.  I think it was a little less successful.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that Beethoven wrote ambient music? The people at NOTAM took Beethoven&#8217;s 9th Symphony and slowed it down so that the entire performance takes 24 hours. It&#8217;s actually quite nice to listen to. (I like 2.1 myself.) [Rats, scooped by MetaFilter. Honest, it was in my queue! Nobody will believe me; they&#8217;ll think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-39733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Who knew that Beethoven wrote ambient music? The people at NOTAM took Beethoven&#8217;s 9th Symphony and slowed it down so that the entire performance takes 24 hours. It&#8217;s actually quite nice to listen to. (I like 2.1 myself.) [Rats, scooped by MetaFilter. Honest, it was in my queue! Nobody will believe me; they&#8217;ll think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}