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From:
Jarmo Niinisalo
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Date:
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:44:47 +0300
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[idm] Dissecting Windowlicker track #2
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Apologies if this is old news, I'm on digest mode.. Ran into an interesting piece of info on the Warp messageboard about track 2 (the long formula) on Aphex Twin's Windowlicker: it seems there are several images encoded into the song that can be seen with a spectogram. Screenshots + instructions to reproduce the images can be seen at http://chaos.yerbox.org/face/ I fiddled around with a spectrogram program that allowed the usage of logarithmic scale (the pics on the above site use linear scale, I think) and got out a bit better image which actually looks quite a lot like RDJ himself (complete with the patented grin). The pic can be seen at http://www.iki.fi/jjn/aphex.gif Somebody speculated a while ago that the formula looked like it could be used in Fast Fourier Transformation, and I guess he was right.. pretty amazing stuff. Explains a lot about that track, too - it's not meant to be listened, it's meant to be watched :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org