{"id":211,"date":"2004-04-11T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2007-03-28T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T23:30:58","slug":"slower-and-of-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/11\/slower-and-of-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Slower, and of Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of a compendium today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foggyhogtownboys.com\/\">Chris Coole<\/a>, while trying to teach me to play &#8220;Shady Grove&#8221; on the banjo, told me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronimusic.com\/\">The Amazing Slow Downer<\/a>. This allows you to slow down CDs or music files without changing pitch, so you can work out how it&#8217;s played.<\/p>\n<p>This is Windows and Mac only, but I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/harpin_floh\/sndstretch_page.html\">SndStretch<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmms.org\/\">XMMS<\/a>. I&#8217;m pretty sure it doesn&#8217;t sound as good (sounds slightly like it&#8217;s played through a hoover hose) as TASD, but it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>While I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/greenroofs.org\/\">Green Roofs for Healthy Cities<\/a> (I contract for them), I found a Montreal-style bagel bakery. It&#8217;s on Bayview a couple of blocks south of Eglinton. They are great bagels; wood-fired, with a sweet crust. Maybe not quite as good as the tiny, rock-hard Polish bagels I got in Glasgow, but miles ahead of anything else in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Montreal, <a href=\"http:\/\/ofmontreal.net\/\">of Montreal<\/a>&#8216;s new album <em>Satanic Panic in the Attic<\/em> is great. Think &#8220;Wilson &amp; Barrett make psych-disco&#8221;, and you&#8217;re about there.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I start a new job tomorrow. Wish me luck \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of a compendium today: Chris Coole, while trying to teach me to play &#8220;Shady Grove&#8221; on the banjo, told me about The Amazing Slow Downer. This allows you to slow down CDs or music files without changing pitch, so you can work out how it&#8217;s played. This is Windows and Mac only, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[289,2902,290],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","category-o-canada","tag-bagels","tag-banjo","tag-green_roofs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}