Check out the OR SOME COMPUTER MUSIC 2 CD. Atau Tanaka and Eric Wenger
composed a piece based on Metasynth[ed] photographs taken by Nobuyoshi
Araki. I'm not very fond of the piece, because it seems to thrive on the
ostensible aspects of Araki's work, but it's an interesting example, none
the less.
M...
quoted 54 lines From: Nintari Man <nintarispam@nintari.com>
>From: Nintari Man <nintarispam@nintari.com>
>To: Jarmo Niinisalo <jjn@iki.fi>
>CC: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] Dissecting Windowlicker track #2
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>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:
>
> > 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 :)
> >
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