That GIF is easily the most disturbing thing I've seen today.
Anyway...
The whole subject of translating digital pics to digital music is pretty
damn fascinating to me, so here's to hoping this thread continues
well here...
There's a Mac called K Metasynth or something which does just that. You
load a picture, and generates a wash of eerie synth noises based on a scan
from left to right of the picture - using, I presume, value, hue,
saturation, etc. to alter the "notes".
Also, FruityLoops 3 (or maybe version before) has a BeepMap plugin that
allows you to do the same.. it's a more compact, easier-to-use interface.
My only problem with either program is that there's not a huge variety in
the range of sounds that a *wide* variety of pictures can produce. It's
usually the generally same eerie synth ambience
I want a program that will produce a very different sound from scanning,
say, a family photo... than something that's a picture of two kangaroos
mating...and even different from a cartoon pic, etc.
I'd hope these sounds wouldn't be tied to cultural restraints (i.e.
no problem with Da Funk, but I wouldn't want a nice sleazy downtempo
groove to emit from scanning a porn pic, for instance). I'd be hoping for
something more wild and generative, or something that didn't do a simple
left-to-right traversal of a picture...
Anyone want to give me some free time to make such a program? No, I don't
want to be fired from my job. :)
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Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jarmo Niinisalo wrote:
quoted 27 lines Apologies if this is old news, I'm on digest mode..
> 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 :)
>
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