Sam Thrussell

Hearts take a very long time to heal

For my final year studio project I decided to explore the capabilities of varispeed. Varispeed is ‘a feature of audio recorders (typically tape-based, although emulated digitally) that allows for both the time and pitch of a recording to be raised and lowered by a percentage, through the use of a pitch or speed control on the recorder.’ The catalyst for this line of research has been the recent explosion of sped up and slowed down versions of existing songs on the social media app TikTok.