38K views · Jan 13, 2019 · 0:32 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2022–2026
A short clip of Venetian Snares' track 'Look' from Songs About My Cats (2001), shown as a spectrogram. The audio encodes an image in its frequency content.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as an example of artists hiding visuals in audio spectrograms.
“exploited by artists like Venetian Snares [1] and Aphex Twin [2]”HN comment, 2022
“exploited by artists like Venetian Snares [1] and Aphex Twin [2]”
Example of artists encoding visuals in audio spectrograms.
> It can be art A fact that's been exploited by artists like Venetian Snares [1] and Aphex Twin [2] [1] this video [2] link Say what you will about "IDM" but the whole genre / movement enabled quite a bit of creative expression and range. I'd be hard pressed to see tracks like these being included in albums in any other context.
“There's a better visualization of the track here”
Better visualization of the track.
Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My Cats", titled "Look". :3 There's a better visualization of the track here: this video
Is the title supposed to be a joke? "Images that sound" really doesn't _sound_ right to me. Also I believe the missed out on citing the pioneering work of Snares et al. 2001 [0] [0] this video
