Let’s listen to some extremely slowed down Bach

In this stressful time, we all need some help attaining inner peace. I’ve been enjoying listening to and thinking about the prelude to Bach’s Violin Partita Number 3 in E major as played by Hopkinson Smith.

Beautiful though this is, it’s also a lot of information packed into a small space. I thought it might be more relaxing if it was slower. And that it might be a lot more relaxing if it was a lot slower. So I used Ableton Live to stretch it out as slow as I possibly could.

I already had the performance all warped out and aligned to the MIDI file for remixing and teaching purposes.

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/bach-violin-partita-in-e-major-prelude-hopkinson-smith-freaks-mix

I slowed the tempo of the audio down as far as Ableton would let me using the Texture warp mode. Then I duplicated the audio and pitched the copy down an octave. I also put a pad sound on the MIDI file. Finally, I added some filter sweeping, delay, and reverb. Download the result here and enjoy.

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