Well, I’m certainly not sleeping soundly tonight. Audacity has given me the power to freak myself out. How, you ask? Well, as of right now, the two things I never want to hear again are:

1. Battles’ Atlas played in reverse. Scariest freaking thing I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s hard to describe what this sounds like without actually listening to it (NOT RECOMMENDED). It’s like dying pygmies on ecstasy locked in a large, echoing auditorium. There was absolutely nothing enjoyable about it, and now I want to pour concrete into my ears.

2. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Maps piano cover with singing overlaid, the piano cut into two identical tracks, one dropped about an octave, the other raised as high as it would go in Audacity, and the vocal track copied into two identical tracks and altered the same way. Don’t ask me why I did it, I just did. This was actually slightly enjoyable, just because it sounded like a music box the Devil would have on his nightstand (does the Devil even have a nightstand? What does he keep on it, a Stephen King novel he reads before he goes to sleep? Does it have drawers in which he stores his sexy lingerie?). Seriously. Super low piano and a throaty “MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPS WAIT. THEY DON’T LOVE YOU LIKE I LOVE YOU” combined with almost dog-whistle high blinky-blinky sounds. Creepy.

It’s not all bad, of course. As previously mentioned, Cut Copy’s Lights and Music is pretty great backwards, as are parts of Owl City’s Fireflies and Dan Black’s Symphonies. Maps sped up to about twice the speed (while keeping the pitch the same) is FREAKING HILARIOUS. “Waaait…theydon’tloveyoulikeIloveyou! Waaait…theydon’tloveyoulikeIloveyou!” Putting wahwah on Sleepyhead will make your head explode, though.

My mission now is to see if I can find the creepiest arrangement of the creepiest song in my music library, just to see what it does to me. Yeah, classes and finals are done and I’m back to just avoiding research. Fun times.

Today’s song: Rain by Rob Scallon