Music, Illustrated
Art, analysis, audio.
podcast:
last recorded
10 Jul 2011
10 Mar 2013
Whale songI've been getting such decent resolution in the low register that I revisited this recording of whale song. Big singer, low notes.No particular observations, other than the images look pleasingly whale-like. An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like what it is. What do you call a sound that looks like what it is? 
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13 Feb 2013
Harmonic convergence: (fully annotated picture past the click) |
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07 Feb 2013
This is a pretty interesting sonic texture, from an orchestral string
section. Are those the individual instruments going in and out of
phase? It's from the first notes of Beethoven's 5th: |
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28 Jan 2013
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Needed help finding the downbeat. I put a ruler on the first verse, where I could line up with the bass:  ..then moved it to the previous position. So the rhythm is 4 measures of |++++++X+| and 4 of |++++++XX|.  |
18 Jan 2013
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This has been bugging me & my guitar buddy; we haven't been satisfied with the chords we're playing here. Looks like C^ | . D^ . E^ | E^ . E . ||  |
15 Jan 2013
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I've been saving spectrograms as png files. They're 60 pixels per second horizontally and 5 bands per half-step vertically. Each pixel is a 24-bit number. This covers 10*log10(2^24) dB=72.24dB, which is pretty good. I guess I could use the alpha bit to kick it up to a 32 bit number (96dB) but I like the fact that it's human readable:  |
14 Dec 2011
 My friend Sandy used nedwaves graphics
for the opening and closing
credits on his documentary for Brookline Access Television, Never
2
Late
2 Play.
The film follows a group of jazz musicians at the John Payne Music School, many of whom started (or re-started) playing music as adults. |
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