nat hawks said the following on 19/02/2006 08:12:
quoted 8 lines i dont' know much about these technical things... but my understanding is
> i dont' know much about these technical things... but my understanding is
> that all digital media comes down to zeros and ones... if so, is there an
> easy way to 'see the code' of an audio file like you can see the code of a
> webpage? if so, has anyone tried to manipulate this code and see what the
> sound turns out to be? also, assuming this is possible, has anyone just
> written a bunch of Os and 1s to see what would come out? you could do the
> same for video..
>
ISTR there's an Aphex Twin track -- fairly recent, off the Richard D
James album or Windowlicker single perhaps -- where the graph of
frequencies (y) against time (x) contains an image of his face.
One googling later...
Original (?) page with images:
http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php
A couple of articles on the technique of turning images into sound:
http://robosexual.typepad.com/glob/science/index.html
http://www.scientific-computing.com/scwmarapr05sonification.html
More links:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52426,00.html
http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/ARTL8.pdf
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