Creating Filters for Sound

There's nothing revolutionary about what's being done here. Just weird stuff. With a little knowledge you can embed images into sound. Here's the life saver processed using Redcap's contours, processed in Metasynth with a special tone mapping, exported out as a wav file, then just viewed through Adobe Audition's spectrogram. It sounds like some space age weird thing.

By the way, we can process images directly in metasynth. Basically the output is just terrifying to listen to and also your ears bleed afterwords. In essence all this is just a spectrum of sound being processed as audio. The lines become pitches and the intensity of each pixel presenting that area becomes the volume. 1 = loudest 0 = no sound.

And aside from music that's overly futuristic, there's something about this that seems more practical. I enjoy sound and visual material at the same time but sometimes I want sound only while getting the visual in my head. So, back some 5 or 6 or whatever years ago there was a scientist who was studying vision through audio for those who are blind. What's crazy about this is that we're all capable of seeing images in our heads when we're instructed on how we're supposed to listen to a piece of audio. It's not perfect, but it works.

So guess what? Well instead of me opening up photoshop I just thought why not just go FitlerForge?

um...here's the pic?

Grr skybase, how do I get my mp3 to play automatically like yours?