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From:
Nintari Man
To:
Jarmo Niinisalo
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Date:
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:
Re: [idm] Dissecting Windowlicker track #2
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<Pine.LNX.4.21.0108282201080.5840-100000@holland.deathhouse.net>
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See Coagula and or Metasynth. It's not hard to do. :) http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/productdetail.aspx?prodno=78775 Look closely. --nm On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jarmo Niinisalo wrote:
quoted 31 lines Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:44:47 +0300> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:44:47 +0300 > From: Jarmo Niinisalo <jjn@iki.fi> > To: idm@hyperreal.org > Subject: [idm] Dissecting Windowlicker track #2 > > 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 >
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