Lena's face in sound

[TomBlackthorne]

You have created a very expensive fax machine?!

[Photosounder]

@TomBlackthorne haha, in a way. Only it also works over the air. You can find apps on iPhone or Android that will retranscribe such images to screen from the phone's mic, although in that case you might have to use different parameters to transmit the image from Photosounder as they will not always record the highest frequencies in the video.

[TomBlackthorne]

@Photosounder Actually I was only kidding about the fax: I came here because of the MacUpdate promo. Would isolating a bass line be any easier/harder than other instruments?

[Photosounder]

@TomBlackthorne it depends on what surrounds it but generally I'd say yes, it would be easier. Although things may be a bit blurry. Well, you can always try with the demo. Just erase what you want to keep with the black spray then press Mask Invert. And by all means, turn on the lossless mode or it won't sound right.

[twxr]

how come you cant save the audio track when using the demo version? it's abit too pricey to buy the original one but i really need to use it for my final year thesis, anybody can help?

[Photosounder]

@twxr that you can't save the audio is the very point of a demo version, so you can try it but if you really need to do something with it you'll have to buy it.

[SamAndrew27]

I'd rather "hear" her naked.

[ffian1]

I knew I would find this after spending weeks researching for my electro-acoustic composition! You guys have made my post uni life easier. Thanks!

[timerider4]

In ARSS what if I have an image but I don't know how it was made? How can it be analyzed properly?

[SmartGXL]

Hmmmm...Anyone else here thinking that this could be a really good chance to rick-roll a lot of people? Use photosounder on a picture of Rick Astley, then take out the actual sound that was created and use MovieMaker to instead, play his "Never Gonna Give You Up" song over the image, then upload to YouTube.

Or another good joke - do the same to your enemy, take his pic, run it thru photosounder, then overlay an extremely gay song, such as "You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive. Hilarity ensues!

[jarblewarble]

She sounds like an alien spacecraft.

[downinitii]

more like lena's hat in sound.

[LemonAndYoghurt]

that picture.. lena who?

[jamesschader]

I think it is pretty cool encoding.

[richardmullins44]

thanks for this demo. I had tried Peter Meijer's "thevoice" which sonifies speech but your demo may be better. ( I think Meijer's system quantizes into 64 spectral channels, each 64 times per second).

[Oscar301]

her face sounds like a Spectrum game loading

[captmanonymous]

isznt this what thet apex fin cunt did some years ago in the future? wank wnak wank

[misterl0gic]

I still think fat chicks sound better!

[jamesschader]

since you can turn a picture into sound could you do the reverse? the quality would obviously be lost however it would be cool!

[Photosounder]

@jamesschader that's what Photosounder does. It does it both ways.

[Quoutub]

@Photosounder

It isn't possible creating an image of a sound without a loss of quality?

[Photosounder]

@Quoutub well... theoretically, yes. But if you do it like this and don't make the sound be hours long then it's gonna have some noisiness to it. It could be done better using sine synthesis as ARSS could do, but then you need to reuse the exact same parameters for analysis otherwise it looks really messed up.

[nathan87]

@jamesschader That's the whole point of a spectrogram, displaying a waveform graphically. I imagine that this way round (starting with an image, then seeing how it sounded) came second.

[motto25]

@jamesschader yea Nine Inch Nails did it in their album "Year Zero"

[y3k23k]

@jamesschader check out the song equation by aphex twin youll poop yourself...

[DjVocoda]

What would then happen if you put some reverb/delay or any other effect on your outcome sound, and then make it into an image again? can imagine some weird effects on the picture too..

[Photosounder]

You'll be disappointed. It'll look mostly like ghost copies/horizontal motion blur and depending on the effect dark horizontal streaks running through the image. Most audio effects represent very simple graphical effects, which is why the graphical approach is powerful, it can trivially do pretty much anything we know of and more.

[DjVocoda]

thanks for your answer! definately going to check out the demo for this, looks like something i may be into buying if i like.

[evildust86]

she sounds HOT!!!

[ZmajSnoshaj]

Well... so far I've done quite a few images... I've had some very interesting results using black and white masks.

I'm using Corel PhotoImpact X3 and applying some of the special effects filters/textures to lasso'd out portions of images... you were definetely right though about tweaking the Min/Max Frequency adjustment knobs. Results in a very... monolith-like sound.... 5 stars! :))))))

[gusphraba]

Do colors matter or just the luminance?

[Photosounder]

Just the luminance. Colours are essentially discarded.

[gusphraba]

Thanks!

[229095]

Oh my GOD!!! I...really have to get this. I've pushed the limits of my own equipment, and this is just far beyond anything I've seen.

[ralienpp]

Hm... so how do you obtain that sound from that image? Shouldn't it sound differently, depending on which approach you chose when interpreting a graphical signal as an audio one?

[Photosounder]

I'm not sure what you're asking...

[aladdin82]

painful to listen to

[Photosounder]

It's meant to look good, not sound good. The two are generally mutually exclusive ;-)

[Quanturos]

I'm sold. This is really cool.

[BMX10GO]

ahhhhh !!!!! mira vos

[Photosounder]

It gets even better (less noisy) if you make the sound last longer. The "noisiness" diminishes by the square root of how much longer the sound is.

[k0is0king]

in english

[TheKeensta]

make sound longer, less static.

[thatscarey]

sounds like compressed air to me. its kinda confusing on how to explain it but like the more in the picture the more air.

[ALXXMaXX]

The more in the picture the more overtones. The more overtones, the closer it is to white noise, the sound of compressed air.

[AFXManolo]

the image looks very good,