Venetian Snares - Look (from Songs About My Cats 2001)

monotoniac · 38K views · 2019-01-13 · 0:32

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A short clip of Venetian Snares' track 'Look' from Songs About My Cats (2001), shown as a spectrogram. The audio encodes an image in its frequency content.

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Cited as an example of artists hiding visuals in audio spectrograms.

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Music performance & songs Information theory & signal processing Creative coding & generative art

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duskwuff · 2026-01 · Reference
Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My Cats", titled "Look". :3 There's a better visualization of the track here: [VIDEO]
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Y_Y · 2024-05 · Joke / meme
Is the title supposed to be a joke? "Images that sound" really doesn't _sound_ right to me. Also I believe the missed out on citing the pioneering work of Snares et al. 2001 [0] [0] [VIDEO]
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stuxnet79 · 2022-09 · Reference
> It can be art A fact that's been exploited by artists like Venetian Snares [1] and Aphex Twin [2] [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] Say what you will about "IDM" but the whole genre / movement enabled quite a bit of creative expression and range. I'd be hard pressed to see tracks like these being included in albums in any other context.
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