01 / 02
roll into note
A drum roll speeds up until it is a note. Kick, a bass that is itself a drum roll, two builds that climb from rhythm into pitch, two drops. 3:41, 124 BPM, A 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
It began as an accident: in a first, 41-second try, the snare roll in the build drew horizontal stripes on the cochleagram. A roll of sixteen hits a second is a pitch. He said “sharp”, so this one does it on purpose: each build climbs from 2 hits a second to 110 (the note A), then 220, and the fan of rising lines is the roll becoming a note. The bass under the drops is a drum fired at the bass notes’ own rates.
Made at four in the morning, after he had played the first one three times. Its other half is note into roll.