A loop destroyer, in a similar vein of William Basinsky.
sox, which you can download from here sox.sourceforge- (optionally)
ffmpeg, to generate a spectrogram video; you can download it from github
pip install --user loop-destroyer
Listen on youtube!
Suppose you have the following directory hierarchy:
.
├── samples-piano
├── piano-01.wav
├── piano-02.wav
├── piano-03.wav
└── piano-04.wav
The simplest way to destroy these samples is:
loop-destroyer -o out_dir --quiet samples-piano/
This command will take each sample, repeat it a number of times (progressively destroying it), and then mix this "degradation chain" with the degradation chains from the other samples.
The resulting directory structure will be:
.
├── out_dir
│ ├── disintegrated.mp3
│ ├── piano-01.wav
│ ├── piano-02.wav
│ ├── piano-03.wav
│ └── piano-04.wav
└── samples-piano
├── piano-01.wav
├── piano-02.wav
├── piano-03.wav
└── piano-04.wav
out_dir contains the disintegrated mix (disintegrated.mp3) and the various degradation chains (named after the sample they destroyed, eg. piano-01.wav).