Lena's face in sound

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In this video we use Photosounder to 'embed' an image into sound, and then use the program Spectrogram 16 to reveal the image as it is contained in that sound.

To reproduce this, set the Frequency scale knob to LINEAR (1.00), choose your frequency range and tweak the Time resolution knob to choose the duration of the resulting sound. Note that the largest you make the sound duration be the nicer and less noisy the resulting image will be. You can then use any other spectrograph program to reveal the image.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• photosounder
• picture
• sound
• face
• aphex
• twin
• spectrograph
• spectrogram

[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.

[evildust86]

she sounds HOT!!!

[TheKeensta]

make sound longer, less static.

[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!