Tag Archives: spectrogram

Spectrograms of Cristian Vogel’s album Eselsbrücke (2013)

Posted on 24 May, 2021 by Guy

Cristian Vogel asked whether I’d created spectrograms of his album Eselsbrücke (2013). I hadn’t, so I did. Here’s the results. The album was conceived around a structural arc, and each track is also highly structured, based on formal processes such … Continue reading →

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Frequency Domain Filtering

Posted on 21 January, 2020 by Guy

On r/puredata Acreil posted this video of generative music made with a pure data patch. It shows a scrolling stereo spectrogram of the music, with wavy lines that represent slices of filtered noise where the filter is always changing. Frequency … Continue reading →

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PARSA – uvuvu

Posted on 14 May, 2019 by Guy

The latest album by PARSA makes for some nice spectrograms. PARSA has previously made music with cellular automata (CODE147) and has recently collaborated with Ramtin Niazi (CLEANBOUNCE VARIATIONS) and with Beckton Alps2 as PARSALPS (Reductions). Here are some of spectrograms … Continue reading →

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Viridis Spectrograms

Posted on 18 March, 2019 by Guy

Viridis is a colour scale designed to meaningfully represent quantitative data and to be perceived clearly by everybody including those with colour blindness. It provides a perceptually uniform scale in both colour and greyscale. Using a viridis colour palette generator, … Continue reading →

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Alvin Lucier – Criss Cross / Hanover

Posted on 28 January, 2018 by Guy

Spectrograms of Alvin Lucier’s new album, made with Sonic Visualiser, using the following settings: Amplitude scale: dBV^2, colour palette: green Sample window (x axis): Hann; 4096 samples; 93.75% overlap Frequency bins (y axis): all, log scale Criss Cross (top), Hanover … Continue reading →

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Encoded Message

Posted on 23 November, 2014 by Guy

This week I’ve been listening to the latest release by TCF (Lars Holdhus) on Liberation Technologies, entitled 415C47197F78E811FEEB7862288306EC4137FD4EC3DED8B.   Like his previous releases, each track title looks like an MD5 checksum – a string of letters and numbers that encodes … Continue reading →

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Wormhole Spectrogramz

Posted on 7 October, 2014 by Guy

EVOL’s music, more often than not, looks great when visualized. The re-release of Wormhhole Shubz on Entr’acte is no exception. Below is a set of spectrograms* showing the first 35 seconds of each track. Click to enlarge. * Spectrograms represent … Continue reading →

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Album Visualized as Spectrogram

Posted on 24 June, 2011 by Guy

I put all the tracks on my album Symmetry-Breaking through spectrogram software to visualize the audio, then stacked the images together with IrfanView. They are all shown to the same scale, so the image width is proportional to the track … Continue reading →

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The Sound of Air (part 1)

Posted on 25 March, 2011 by Guy

I am fascinated by the effect of air on sound. In particular, I’m interested in the effect it has on the sound of air and road traffic. It sounds like a ‘tumbling’ or ‘folding’ of sound, with fluctuations in loudness, … Continue reading →

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