At last. Synchronicity.
Ever since I started driving at the age of 16, and maybe even before that while my big brother drove me around, I have been yearning for music and machine to be in sync. Maybe you've done the same - tapping away on your steering wheel to a song while your turn-signal ticks. Listening to the end of a great tune while the beeper goes off in the car reminding you to turn off the headlights. Or maybe - just maybe - you had your seatbelt off while you turned into the driveway and the 'ding-ding' warning tried to match the pulse of the track on the radio. I have never been able to get the beats of a song to match the various car-induced rhythms. One was always slightly faster or slower than the other, and the sync never happened. Sometimes you'd think it was close and for a few seconds all was right with the world, but then they start to separate and it felt like tone-deaf karaoke. Ugh.
But yesterday it happened. I was listening to one of my favourite tracks by The Shins. As I came around the corner to my house, I popped off my seatbelt and the dinging started. PERFECTLY in sync with the song. At first I thought they would deviate like all the others, but by Jove they stayed together for whole last minute of the song. Incredible.
"Phantom Limb" by The Shins and the seatbelt alarm on a 2008 Volkswagen Passat. A perfect match.
OK weird video, but the ending of the song is very addictive. I usually end up listening to it twice in a row.
Ever since I started driving at the age of 16, and maybe even before that while my big brother drove me around, I have been yearning for music and machine to be in sync. Maybe you've done the same - tapping away on your steering wheel to a song while your turn-signal ticks. Listening to the end of a great tune while the beeper goes off in the car reminding you to turn off the headlights. Or maybe - just maybe - you had your seatbelt off while you turned into the driveway and the 'ding-ding' warning tried to match the pulse of the track on the radio. I have never been able to get the beats of a song to match the various car-induced rhythms. One was always slightly faster or slower than the other, and the sync never happened. Sometimes you'd think it was close and for a few seconds all was right with the world, but then they start to separate and it felt like tone-deaf karaoke. Ugh.
But yesterday it happened. I was listening to one of my favourite tracks by The Shins. As I came around the corner to my house, I popped off my seatbelt and the dinging started. PERFECTLY in sync with the song. At first I thought they would deviate like all the others, but by Jove they stayed together for whole last minute of the song. Incredible.
"Phantom Limb" by The Shins and the seatbelt alarm on a 2008 Volkswagen Passat. A perfect match.
OK weird video, but the ending of the song is very addictive. I usually end up listening to it twice in a row.
3 comments:
I'm always like that too when I'm in the car. I always want the sound of the left and right signal to match up to the song I'm listening to on the radio however it always seems impossible for that to happen.
Wow!
nice! cool!
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