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Pictures in music

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:07 am
by james
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.

Image

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.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:37 pm
by Chalet Ed
is this for real? All seems a bit suspect to me, especially the one of venetian snares cat. Hmmm.....

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:05 am
by Ra
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.

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:51 am
by setwin
i hadn't seen the snares one before, smart

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:01 am
by james
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. :wink:

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:21 am
by setwin
robbie williams has it all the way through his tracks, probably pictures of himself possing in front of a mirror in his pants

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:52 am
by mute
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 :)

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:45 pm
by james
Yeah, that's synaesthesia. Kenny suffers from that, he sees pretty colours when he listens to music; how fun!