Leif Inge’s (*1970) iconoclast take on Beethoven, the monumental 24-hours soundscape 9 Beet Stretch, and has become emblematic of his art. The 9 Beet Stretch is a piece of idea-based sound art made of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The source recording, a Naxos recording conducted by Béla Drahos with the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia and Chorus (Naxos 8.553478), was stretched digitally to a duration of 24 hours with no distortion or pitch shifting. The work is presented as a 24-hour-long sound installation/electroacoustic concert.

The initial realization of 9 Beet Stretch was done in 2002 at NOTAM (Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics, and Music) by Anders Vinjar, Kjetil Matheussen, Leif Inge, and Bjarne Kvinnesland. Granulation divides the sound into short enveloped grains and reproduces them in high densities ranging from several hundred to several thousand grains per second. Slicing the input file into short pieces then overlapping these slices to lengthen (or shorten) the result allows a change in the speed at which things happen in a recorded sound without changing the pitches. The ratio of augmentation reaches 24 hours will vary depending on which source recording is used. The sources range from 64′ to 78′, giving a ratio somewhere in the range of 19 – 23 times.

Leif Inge – 9 Beet Stretch, 1st Movement (Extract)

• Thank you letter – for supporting this project

  Your name on our website – Backers Circle

  Official project description PDF
  This file was available ONLY to musicians

  Original Poster/Invitation PDF
  These files were the official invitations sent to the participant artists

  Set of 6 postcards with original artworks
  by Mykel Boyd, Adi Newton, and Mauricio Reyes

  2 Bookmarks

  Original 9 Beet Stretch on a 32GB UDP/Memory Chip

  Aural Annex CD – Featuring Unreleased tracks by all participants!

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