The sound of space-filling curves
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The sound of space-filling curves
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Re: The sound of space-filling curves
#2I wish this was interactive; I'd love to follow the dots and watch the keys be depressed.
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#3The synth cutting off and glitching are so irritating! Seems like a lot of work to put into something to leave really jarring artifacts all over. If you ever create or edit audio, all tracks and samples should start and end on the zero crossing. Otherwise the jump "back" to zero introduces lots of noise. Sticks out like a sore thumb on a spectograph
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#4Well that's interesting. The fast-playing 2d curve (the fourth audio file, under "Meander fast track") sounds a lot like a solo, a taksim, in an oriental scale - Ussak, perhaps, or Segah, although the tuning is western. It's like music made out of a heavily stylised and simplified arabesque. So cool.
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#5interesting.
on the same topic, i been also curious of something and wonder if anyone have the answer to this.
lets say i have a track playing just one note (to be specific, a frequency measured in hertz, lets say 528) for one minute and we want this to be as pure sounding as possible.
what is the best approach to do this?
in addition, if the audio file is in WAV and we convert them to mp3, do we still lose a lot of quality even though we are just playing same note for 1 minute?
how cam we achieve playing the purest sound without music file taking up too much space?
Re: The sound of space-filling curves
#6interesting. on the same topic, i been also curious of something and wonder if anyone have the answer to this. lets say i have a track playing just one note (to be specific, a frequency measured in hertz, lets say 528) for one minute and we want this to be as pure sounding as possible. what is the best approach to do this? in addition, if the audio file is in WAV and we convert them to mp3, do we still lose a lot of…
In theory, an 1056 Hz 8-bit WAV file filled with alternating +127 and -127 samples will perfectly reproduce a 528 Hz tone. That's about 60kB in size, and a traditional LZW compression (I.e. Zip) will work quite well due to the repetition.
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#7To me the most impressive is the sample in the "Sampling at square centre points and connecting points" section.
Re: The sound of space-filling curves
#8interesting. on the same topic, i been also curious of something and wonder if anyone have the answer to this. lets say i have a track playing just one note (to be specific, a frequency measured in hertz, lets say 528) for one minute and we want this to be as pure sounding as possible. what is the best approach to do this? in addition, if the audio file is in WAV and we convert them to mp3, do we still lose a lot of…
re: pure sounding. make sure track starts and ends on zero crossing, or add volume ramping. Otherwise click on discontinuity will be very non-pure.
Re: The sound of space-filling curves
#9interesting. on the same topic, i been also curious of something and wonder if anyone have the answer to this. lets say i have a track playing just one note (to be specific, a frequency measured in hertz, lets say 528) for one minute and we want this to be as pure sounding as possible. what is the best approach to do this? in addition, if the audio file is in WAV and we convert them to mp3, do we still lose a lot of…
In theory, an 1056 Hz 8-bit WAV file filled with alternating +127 and -127 samples will perfectly reproduce a 528 Hz tone. That's about 60kB in size, and a traditional LZW compression (I.e. Zip) will work quite well due to the repetition.
Wouldn’t that likely end up as a sawtooth pattern at the speaker and thus introduce a number of harmonics?
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#10I'll admit that I went to the page skeptical, expecting another "let's see how some arbitrary mathematical function turned into a song sounds," but I was pleasantly surprised that some of these sound decent.
It makes me wonder: what if we take existing songs, try to find space-filling curves that explain them, and then look for different paths through those curves? In other words: would it be easy / possible to parameterize existing songs as curves, so that we can find which subset of the space of space-filling curves is actually interesting to human ears?