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all been done before

  On 3/11/2011 at 2:23 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

AMAZON

 

last bit from doom.exe

 

 

You might also check out the .PAK files of Quake, they're awesome. 35 minutes of pure bliss (at least for Quake 2).

I spent my afternoon looking at cool bits into this sea of noise.

Is my life that much interesting ?

I think yes.

  On 3/12/2011 at 4:04 PM, soundwave said:

all been done before

 

the concept of sonification has existed far longer than Tetsu Inoue has been alive. Plus Waterloo terminal ,while conceptually it may have been done that way it sounds very similar to most other tetsu inoue work, in fact its indistinguishable to me if he had just made the album on all synthesizers and effects. Great album though, as is most of his post beat oriented stuff

Edited March 13, 2011 by Awepittance

  On 3/11/2011 at 6:23 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 6:08 AM, modey said:

there's also that software which allows you to export the spectrograph of an audio file as an image, for use in photoshop etc, and can import it again to apply the effects losslessly (zole is that a word?), can't remember the name though argh!

 

that sounds a lot cooler than what i' was talking about, when you say it exports the spectrum i'm guessing it does it in such a way where upon reimport into a sound program it's mostly unchanged?

 

if you remember the name please drop that shit

Probably not the same one but I've used this in the past - http://arss.sourceforge.net/examples.shtml

The 'interface' is kinda old skool being command line driven and doesn't appear to have been updated in two years but it's certainly worth a play ...

 

Here's the first 40 seconds of Avril 14th loaded into Photoshop where the image was then flipped (so the low notes became high notes and vice versa) -

http://www.ilovecubus.co.uk/pete/avril_flipped.mp3 (the weird mushy sound is due to the fft window size, it took about 10 minutes to process as it is so god knows how long it'd take if it could do higher resolution fft)

  On 3/12/2011 at 4:04 PM, soundwave said:

all been done before

 

It's not all about breaking ground, it's about having a time, no?

Edited March 13, 2011 by DerWaschbar

  On 3/13/2011 at 8:03 AM, DerWaschbar said:

  On 3/12/2011 at 4:04 PM, soundwave said:

all been done before

 

It's not all about breaking ground, it's about having a time, no?

It's all about having a time!!!

 

I don't think there's anything wrong in exploring something that others have done before, as long as there's progression.

 

Last year I wanted to make an album where I did this and sampled various binaries. I actually listened to MS-Paint then, but never got around to making a track. I released the album under the title "File System Series", but only made a track using Explorer.exe:

 

http://soundcloud.com/terrestrialcouncil/explorer-exe