Observing the spectrogram of "Tomorrow's Harvest"
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zeitgeist wrote:i could google it, but i'm lazy. how is this done anyway? how can i turn a picture into a sound?
here you go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbZa99ocPU
i see it differently
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While we're playing with spectrograms, is there anything to be said for taking the left spectrogram and blending it with the right one (either multiplicative, additive, subtractive) and see if that yields anything?
It's just that in some tracks (especially uritual) there seems to be a bias to one ear rather than the other.
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It's just that in some tracks (especially uritual) there seems to be a bias to one ear rather than the other.
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zeitgeist wrote:how is this done anyway? how can i turn a picture into a sound?
You can do it using the likes of Coagula, AudioPaint, Bitmaps & Waves etc.
IMHO putting pictures in song spectra is a gimmick that thankfully ran out of steam at least a decade ago.
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tripone wrote:justin wrote:unless something on the scale of this shows up as far as i'm concerned there's nothing there .
While something on that scale would of course make it much more obvious, I'm guessing it would also be extremely obvious sonically, adding a bunch of noise to the tune itself. Although I've seen the Aphex spectrogram before, I haven't heard the tune itself so correct me if I'm wrong on that.
No, you're right. Here's the Aphex Twin song with the spectrogram. There's lots of other imagery in the track, and they are sonically obvious. Aphex's face appears around 5:30.
EDIT: Here is Look, by Venetian Snares.
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tripone wrote:Played around with a spectral analyzer for a bit of fun tonight and found this within the last 10 seconds of Gemini. I'll leave it open to interpretation instead of giving my take, as I'm interested to find out if anyone else sees anything besides random dots.![]()
HOLY CRAP. I totally see it. That's awesome.
But what why would they hide an image of an elephant fucking a car in a spectrograph. What does it mean?
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El Camino wrote:PlacentaSand wrote:hm... i do see a flower and i do see a double digit number with a 2 in the tens place... very interesting... i cant help but think that creating something like that is impossible though... the music just happens to have a life of its own.
Well Aphex Twin did manage to put a face in the spectrograph
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 83.jpg?v=1
And Venetian Snares managed to hide cats in there.
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 84.jpg?v=1
Wouldn't be a stretch for BoC to do something like this.
I wouldn't call that venetian track music though. static generated from kitty pics.
awesome pics though
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re-phaelam-ed wrote:I wouldn't call that venetian track music though. static generated from kitty pics.
awesome pics though
I suppose that we're indeed not supposed to listen to it, as the title of the track indicates, and Snares didn't intend us to call it a song. But if Iannis Xenakis had recorded that and titled it "Straktosfluribus", we'd have no choice but to call it music anyway.
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Re: Observing the spectrogram of "Tomorrow's Harvest"
I don't think we should be too submissive of that spectrograph of them in Gemini. I know this is oh-so late, but I googled them and they're both Geminis. I think it makes perfect sense. We could be overthinking but maybe it's just extremely subtle.
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Re: Observing the spectrogram of "Tomorrow's Harvest"
LXT800 wrote:I don't think we should be too submissive of that spectrograph of them in Gemini. I know this is oh-so late, but I googled them and they're both Geminis. I think it makes perfect sense. We could be overthinking but maybe it's just extremely subtle.
Gemini and Cancer

Re: Observing the spectrogram of "Tomorrow's Harvest"
[quote="arvy"][quote="LXT800"]I don't think we should be too submissive of that spectrograph of them in Gemini. I know this is oh-so late, but I googled them and they're both Geminis. I think it makes perfect sense. We could be overthinking but maybe it's just extremely subtle.[/quote]
Gemini and Cancer[/quote]
Oh tru tru. I misread that. Tho, Gemini and Cancers don't usually get along so I assume Marcus is a cusp between Cancer/Leo since it's near the end date for Cancers. It'd make more sense considering that Geminis/Leos get along extremely well. Despite any of that, it's still pretty crazy.
Gemini and Cancer[/quote]
Oh tru tru. I misread that. Tho, Gemini and Cancers don't usually get along so I assume Marcus is a cusp between Cancer/Leo since it's near the end date for Cancers. It'd make more sense considering that Geminis/Leos get along extremely well. Despite any of that, it's still pretty crazy.
Re: Observing the spectrogram of "Tomorrow's Harvest"
LXT800 wrote:arvy wrote:LXT800 wrote:I don't think we should be too submissive of that spectrograph of them in Gemini. I know this is oh-so late, but I googled them and they're both Geminis. I think it makes perfect sense. We could be overthinking but maybe it's just extremely subtle.
Gemini and Cancer
Oh tru tru. I misread that. Tho, Gemini and Cancers don't usually get along so I assume Marcus is a cusp between Cancer/Leo since it's near the end date for Cancers. It'd make more sense considering that Geminis/Leos get along extremely well. Despite any of that, it's still pretty crazy.
Yes, I guess that's correct, Cancer/Leo

