In this piece I chose 2 images from the Windows/Wallpaper folder. A bit of extremely light flanging, a bit of pitch transposing and a bit of reverb is all I added.
The musicality of the wave file depends on the position of light and shade on the bitmap you load into Sound 2D Warper. A lot of what I get is crap. Colorful images, without patterns gives a nice flowing color to the resulting wave file. Also, larger block sizes gives lareger wave files at a lower pitch, which is what I use.
The fun part is when you run the resulting wave file through Akoff Music Composer to extract a MIDI file and use that to construct something completely different, with samplers and synths...
Actually color does not make a difference. Even though it displays the image as color, it only sees it as greyscale. I just did an experiment with a color image and the same image converted to 8 bit greyscale and they sounded the same; also if you import a wave file you will see it is displayed as greyscale.
Akoff Music Composer sounds very interesting. I may try the demo. I wish the demo let you save midi files.
Remarkable and unusual ambience, truly inspiring, I you told me you had to work hard to achieve it, I would have believed you. It is completely different from everything I’ve heard before. I particularly liked the psychoacoustic effects that are produced using headphones that are what I used to hear at it. There are much more high frequencies that we can hear consciously, but they are there and affect your brain in a certain way, as explained by science.
I have just discovered the strength of this program. Load a wav file into it of a sample you have made. Use a single drum hit to begin with for simplicity, then save the image and load it into a graphics editing program. Now you can fuck with it! Next save the image and load it back into Sound 2D warper. In graphic form you can clearly see the overtones and delete them. Adding graphic filters such as in photoshop does wonderful and unique things to the sound. In short this is an amazing way to create audio effects. Is this resynthesis?
Hint it only loads 16 bit audio not 24.
Thanks to Paul. This will change my life forever!
