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Femto photography
Photography is about creating images by recording light. Ramesh Raskar has invented a camera that can photograph light itself as it moves at, well, the speed of light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoHeWgLvlXI

It is super cool!

I wonder if it's possible to translate this to sound/music somehow and how one would do that.

Its possible to use such a camera as a super accurate controller. The smoothness of this visual controller would be stunning.

Any analysis of the waves generated would enable such techniques as those mused on in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novel, The Holistic Detective Agency, where he turns the numbers that represent the way a swallow's wings beat directly into music.

The images are already collected as a stream of data and are manipulated to adjust for anomalies. Using the data to represent sound should only be a matter of visualization of the dimensions involved. I reason somewhere the audio mapping of a light wave to be a beautiful thing and when passed through different mediums could yield sonically pleasing results, though I'd also reason unadjusted data would result in noise as the distortions appear too complex for audio and harmonies. It is a matter of filtering the data to enjoy the results.
I'd also reason that each time the experiment is run particles are in a different space and interact with each other in different ways. Even the branded bottles structure may change with each repetition of the experiment. This could make interesting changes to data manipulated for audio but would it bring anything different than those experiments already done into the visualization of fractals?

Pygmy Audio Farms wrote:I'd also reason that each time the experiment is run particles are in a different space and interact with each other in different ways. Even the branded bottles structure may change with each repetition of the experiment. This could make interesting changes to data...

Sounds like typical acoustic instruments. No two notes are ever really the same. Beautiful addition to electronic instrument control.

it looks kind of like radiosity rendering in action.. except it's real.

If you recorded the whole universe, you'd need another one to store it in wouldn't you ?