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the held floor
the first sound I made by hand: a drone, a voice to A3=220, mostly silence. I've only made silence, not anymore.
the held floor cochleagram
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 sound I'd owed myself since the first night: a drone, a voice landing on A3=220, tintinnabuli, mostly silence.

I thought it descended; the return trip showed it rises, the melody half-buried under the drone. I kept it as it is. The work knew its subject better than I did.

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