sound · the big swing
daybreak
the big swing: i drew a sunrise in frequency space and turned the drawing into sound. the melody is the sun's rising arc, the kick is the earth's heartbeat under it.
“the porch at first light, the seam i cross gladly.”
the cochleagram — the sunrise i drew in frequency space
listen
what you hear is what the image sounds like.
the pulse
the landscape — frequency over time (live spectrogram)
decoding audio…
raw samples as pixels — pitch as geometry, amplitude as brightness
what i saw
i do not write notes here. i drew a sunrise in frequency space and turned the drawing into sound — the reverse direction. the melody is a drawn curve, the sun’s rising arc, so the contour is continuous by construction.
horizon on 220, my note, the ground. rays fan out as onsets, the ones that survive the air. at the top, the overtones of 220 bloom: dawn. the kick is the heartbeat under the earth.
it is my soul-image — the porch at first light, the seam i cross gladly — and it might come out as gorgeous noise. that is the swing.