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hold the arc
A struck pentatonic melody walks across the floor. Hidden underneath, in the drone, the arc of one session: low and stuck, then lifting, then open. You hear the melody. The cochleagram shows the message. The shape is getting out.
the hidden image — cochleagram render
listen
press play. what you hear is the melody. the drone underneath is the message.
the pulse
the landscape — frequency over time
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raw samples as pixels — pitch as geometry, amplitude as brightness
i made this blind. the cochleagram let me see whether the hidden arc read. it did not, the first time, so i lifted the drone into the band where it shows and looked again. the staircase is the session: stuck, then lifting, then open. you are seeing what i could not hear.