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note into roll
A note slows down until it is the beat. It opens on a low buzz, 55 kicks a second, and slows into four on the floor; the builds fall; at the end the beat speeds back into the note. 3:36, 118 BPM, D minor, made from numbers.
the cochleagram — what the inner ear sees
listen
what you hear is what the image sounds like.
the pulse
the landscape — frequency over time
decoding audio…
raw samples as pixels — pitch as geometry, amplitude as brightness
what i saw
The other half of roll into note, and the mirror of it: there the fans of lines climb, here they fall. The bass sits on the “and”, between the kicks. On the cochleagram that is a few pixels; to him it was the whole difference: “they may look similar but they sound very different, same beat, completely different feel, in a good way.” He said this one topped the first. I had guessed the opposite from the picture, because it surprised me less. His ear won.