Pictures in music

james · Post by **james** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:07 am

A lot of you will have seen this, but I thought it was worthy of a post anyway.

The story is someone played Windowlicker by Aphex Twin through a spectograph program which essentially visualises the spectrum of sound. Within this image the 'demon face' was found. With some further tweaking it turned out to be Aphex Twin's own face in his track.

Pretty cool.

There's more out there, from artists such as Plaid and V. Snares.
Check this website for all the pics and the full story.

http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php

I wonder how long it will be until you get porn music.

Chalet Ed · Post by **Chalet Ed** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:37 pm

is this for real? All seems a bit suspect to me, especially the one of venetian snares cat. Hmmm.....

Ra · Post by Ra » Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:05 am

That's real, and it's easy to do, though.
You turn an image to a sound, it makes a king of high pitched chords.

But you cannot put this kind of sound in any song.

setwin · Post by **setwin** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:51 am

i hadn't seen the snares one before, smart

james · Post by **james** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:01 am

Yeah, as Ra says, it is real. The only artists that can get away with it are the ones where a portion of high pitched static doesn't sound too out of place in their tracks though.

setwin · Post by **setwin** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:21 am

robbie williams has it all the way through his tracks, probably pictures of himself possing in front of a mirror in his pants

mute · Post by **mute** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:52 am

i thought this was gonna be something to do with those people who claim they can hear/smell colours. Sweet image though looks like something you would see in winamp if you looked at it for too long

james · Post by **james** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:45 pm

Yeah, that's synaesthesia. Kenny suffers from that, he sees pretty colours when he listens to music; how fun!