Feed any song into The Evaporator and watch it dissolve. This tool slows audio to absurd, glacial, cosmically irresponsible speeds – all the way down to 1% of the original tempo – without touching the pitch. A three-minute pop song becomes a five-hour ambient opus. A drum solo becomes a thunderstorm on Jupiter. Your ex’s voicemail becomes a harrowing whale song from the bottom of the Mariana Trench. You’re welcome.
What Is The Evaporator?
The Evaporator is what happens when you give a time-stretching algorithm too much power and no adult supervision. It takes any audio file – a pop song, a symphony, a podcast, your neighbor’s lawnmower – and slows it down to as little as 1% of its original speed, all while keeping the pitch completely unchanged. The result is a vast, shimmering, otherworldly soundscape that bears almost no resemblance to the source material. A snare hit becomes a rolling thunderclap. A vocal harmony becomes a choir of ancient gods humming in a cavern the size of a small moon. It’s not a tool. It’s a portal.
How to Evaporate a Song
- Upload Your Victim: Any MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, or OGG file. The Evaporator does not judge your taste in music. It judges nothing. It simply dissolves.
- Set the Dissolution Rate: 75% for a subtle fog. 50% for a dreamy melt. 25% for an ambient drift. 10% for deep space. 5% for geological time. 1% for the heat death of the universe, rendered in stereo.
- Preview the Void: Press Play or spacebar to hear the evaporation in real time. Drag the slider while playing to hear the song dissolve and reform like audio taffy.
- Download Your Creation: Click ‘Evaporate’ and receive your ambient masterpiece in the same format as your input file. Play it at a gallery opening. Use it as sleep audio. Annoy your roommate for 5 consecutive hours with what used to be a 3-minute song.
The Dissolution Scale
A quick guide to what each speed range actually sounds like, for the morbidly curious:
- 75–90% (The Haze): The song is still recognizable but slightly dreamlike, as if you’re hearing it from the next room through a wall of warm honey. Vibes are immaculate. Your Spotify playlist wishes it sounded this chill.
- 50% (The Melt): Half speed. The song becomes a slow, sweeping ambient piece. Vocals stretch into long, breathy sighs. Drums become distant, rolling percussion. This is where most people realize they’ve made something genuinely beautiful by accident.
- 25% (The Drift): The original song is now a ghost. Individual notes hang in the air for seconds. Chord changes feel like weather systems moving across a continent. You will start hearing textures and harmonics in the music that you never knew existed.
- 10% (The Abyss): A 3-minute song is now 30 minutes. It no longer sounds like music. It sounds like the hum of a dying star filtered through a cathedral made of crystal. It is, against all odds, extremely listenable. You may cry.
- 5% (Geological Time): A 3-minute song is now an hour. Notes last so long they become environments. A single guitar chord is a landscape. A cymbal crash is a weather event. Time has lost all meaning. You have ascended.
- 1% (Heat Death): A 3-minute song is now roughly 5 hours. What you are listening to is no longer music in any conventional sense. It is the sound of sound itself being pulled apart at the molecular level. It is terrifying and gorgeous and you cannot explain to anyone why you’re listening to it. We do not recommend 1% for the faint of heart, the impatient, or anyone with somewhere to be in the next several hours.
Why Does This Exist?
Ambient Music Creation: Seriously though – this is one of the best-kept secrets in ambient music production. Take any song with interesting harmonics, run it through The Evaporator at 5–25%, and you get instant ambient material that would take hours to create from scratch. Brian Eno would be proud. Or confused. Probably both.
Sound Design & Film: Need an eerie, atmospheric drone for your short film, podcast intro, or video game? Evaporate a piano recording at 10%. Need an unsettling background hum for a horror scene? Evaporate literally anything at 3%. The results are consistently haunting in ways that synthesizers struggle to replicate because the source harmonics are real.
Meditation & Sleep Audio: Evaporated music at 10–25% makes genuinely excellent background audio for meditation, sleep, or deep focus work. The pitch stays natural, the harmonics are rich and organic, and the glacial pace creates a sense of vast spaciousness. It’s like a sound bath made from whatever song you happen to love.
Art Installations: Loop a song evaporated to 5% in a gallery space and you have instant conceptual audio art. Bonus points if the source material is something absurd. An evaporated ice cream truck jingle at 3% sounds like the soundtrack to humanity’s final transmission into the cosmos. We cannot stress this enough.
Musical Discovery: When you slow a familiar song to 10–25%, you hear things you’ve never noticed before. Hidden harmonics emerge. Background instruments become the foreground. You discover that your favorite song has been hiding an entire secret world of texture and detail that normal playback speeds completely obscure. It’s like looking at a photograph through a microscope.
Because You Can: Honestly, sometimes the reason to do something is simply because the technology allows it and the results are hilarious, beautiful, or both. We built The Evaporator because we wanted to know what a 3-minute pop song sounds like at 1% speed. The answer is: it sounds like the cosmos dreaming. And now you can find out too.
The Science of Extreme Time-Stretching
Normal audio slowdown works by literally playing samples slower, which drops the pitch (think: slowed record on a turntable). The Evaporator uses time-stretching algorithms that analyze the frequency content of the audio and reconstruct it at the new speed while preserving the original pitch. At moderate slowdowns this sounds transparent. At extreme ratios like 5% or 1%, the algorithm is working so hard to fill in the gaps between original audio frames that it creates entirely new timbres and textures – ghostly artifacts that, rather than being flaws, become the entire aesthetic. The “imperfections” at extreme settings ARE the art. That shimmering, granular, otherworldly quality? That’s the algorithm dreaming.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Evaporator actually do?
It slows any song to extreme speeds (as low as 1%) without changing the pitch. A 3-minute song at 1% becomes roughly 5 hours of ambient audio. The vocals, instruments, and harmonics are preserved but stretched into vast, glacial soundscapes.
Is this free?
Yes. Completely free. Unlimited evaporations. No subscriptions, no file limits. Dissolve as many songs as you want into ambient oblivion.
What happens at 1% speed?
A 3-minute song becomes approximately 5 hours. Individual notes stretch into enormous drones. Chord changes unfold over minutes. It sounds like the heat death of music – beautiful, haunting, and completely alien. It will also generate a very large file.
How long will my evaporated audio be?
Original duration divided by the percentage. 4-minute song at 50% = 8 minutes. At 10% = 40 minutes. At 1% = nearly 7 hours. Plan your hard drive space accordingly.
Why would anyone slow a song to 1%?
Because the results are genuinely extraordinary. Also: ambient music production, sound design, meditation audio, art installations, sleep soundscapes, and the pure existential thrill of hearing a pop song stretched into a multi-hour drone. Try it once. You’ll understand.
Will it sound good?
Define “good.” At 50–75% it sounds dreamy and beautiful. At 10–25% it sounds like ambient music from another dimension. At 1–5% it sounds like the heat death of the universe rendered in hi-fi. All of these are good. None of these are good. It depends entirely on your relationship with the concept of time.
What audio formats work?
MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG. Upload in any format, download in the same format. The Evaporator is format-agnostic. It dissolves all things equally.
Does this work on mobile?
Yes. Evaporate songs directly from your phone. We cannot be held responsible for what you do with this power on public transit.
Is this the same as Slowed + Reverb?
No. Slowed + Reverb changes the pitch (lower) and adds reverb. The Evaporator keeps the pitch identical and adds no effects – only time-stretching. The result is cleaner, more transparent, and can go to far more extreme speeds. It’s the difference between putting on sunglasses and staring directly into a black hole.
Can I use evaporated audio in my own projects?
The Evaporator is a tool – what you create with it is between you and the original copyright holder. We provide the dissolution; you provide the discretion.