Comments on: It’s Just Noise!

By: hellocatfood

hellocatfood — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:43:39 +0000

Hi Brendan, I’m interested in doing that! Just e-mail me more information when you get it

By: Brendan O'Neill

Brendan O'Neill — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:37:11 +0000

Hi Antonio

I’m doing a pop video soon for the 2 weeks to make it competition and wondered if you’d be up for helping me incorporate some databent images and possibly sounds into the video I make. The video to some extent will depend on what band I get paired with so will advise if you’re interested.

Best

Brendan

By: Rosina Powell

Rosina Powell — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:46:16 +0000

exciting
i sent you an email

By: hellocatfood

hellocatfood — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:48:46 +0000

I’ve already used several similar techniques to convert audio to an image and I’ll let you know now that the result aint that pretty! Usually there’s just too much noise on a track and in turn that’ll get converted to an image.

So, unless your sound is very very clean and sharp you end up with just white, glitchy or otherwise very noisy noise.

For an interesting experiment try converting a single tone to an image. It makes nice patterns

By: simon gray

simon gray — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:39:26 +0000

indeed – & a step after that could be transferring it back again, so you get a piece of audio which was turned into a picture which was turned back into a piece of audio (& vice versa) !

By: Troy James Sobotka

Troy James Sobotka — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:20:45 +0000

Interesting stuff.

The obvious next step I can see is to take a simple audio snippit and reverse engineer it back to an image.

That might give you some interesting insight or a path for exploration?

By: Daniel Temkin

Daniel Temkin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:49:15 +0000

Are you familiar at all with Lis Rhodes? The second video reminds me a lot of her film Light Music, where she put identical black & white geometric shapes on the visual and optical audio tracks of 16mm film.

This is the only video I could find of it: http://vimeo.com/4260483 (kind of terrible recording)

By: hellocatfood

hellocatfood — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:27:31 +0000

It’s all a bit tricky at the moment. I’m still trying to figure out how the colour, shape and size of the image relates to the sounds produced

By: Adam Lankford

Adam Lankford — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:18:56 +0000

I saw this [ http://8bitcollective.com/music/hellocatfood/Oddly+Enough/ ] the other day and tried it tonight using slightly modified images from the ones on the link you provided and a few simple images.

After putting this image through audacity [ http://www.fumcuvalde.com/clientimages/33994/simple_rainbow.jpg ] I am seriously looking into this technique. It’s intriguing as to how audacity reads the raw file, though. After loading the rainbow image, the sound/wave form didn’t resemble the picture as I thought it would in terms of symmetry and/or congruence…

By: ponor

ponor — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:15:47 +0000

Hi Antonio I love what you are doing here..! only just found you via @ragearts – “…how the colour effects the sound…” This seems very exciting – I mean the possibilities for making and linking images to sound/sound to image – good luck!