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It's become somewhat of a tradition among electronic musicians to embed graphics into spectrograms, the most widely known example being Aphex Twin's "Windowlick
by mgunes 15y ago
It's become somewhat of a tradition among electronic musicians to embed graphics into spectrograms, the most widely known example being Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" (1999). A few examples, including that one:
http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10 http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10
There must be precursors of the practice before the advent of computer music, or even digital/electronic music production altogether, but I can't recall any; I'd love to be pointed to them.
- daeken 15y agoIt's not quite on the level of embedding images in a spectrogram, but buried deep in Amarok by Mike Oldfield is morse code for "FUCK OFF RB", a reference to Richard Branson, owner of his label, Virgin Records.
- groby_b 15y agoOh, absolutely. Earliest one I'm aware of is Bach's "Art of the fugue", where he embedded his name as a third voice. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BACH_motif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BACH_motif
- EmmanuelOga 15y agoIt is pretty easy to accomplish too. Here is a perl program an explanation on how to encode images on sounds. http://www.ohmpie.com/imageencode/ http://www.ohmpie.com/imageencode/
- joshu 15y agofor some bizarre reason, i was interviewed about this. in 2002. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/05/52426 http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/05/52426