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0:32 · 38K views · Jan 13, 2019
A short clip of Venetian Snares' track 'Look' from Songs About My Cats (2001), shown as a spectrogram. The audio encodes an image in its frequency content.
Cited as an example of artists hiding visuals in audio spectrograms.
3 comments from Hacker News
> It can be art A fact that's been exploited by artists like Venetian Snares [1] and Aphex Twin [2] [1] this video [2] [LINK] Say what you will about "IDM" but the whole genre / movement enabled quite a bit of creative expression and range. I'd be hard pressed to see tracks like these being included in albums in any other context.
Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My Cats", titled "Look". :3 There's a better visualization of the track here: this video
Is the title supposed to be a joke? "Images that sound" really doesn't _sound_ right to me. Also I believe the missed out on citing the pioneering work of Snares et al. 2001 [0] [0] this video