data as audio

Awesome, music-like sounds result. It's on youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZgCVG_Bzk

For those who are wondering, I believe the large amount of plays this has gotten were mostly from reddit.com, but other sites such as youtube can account for some of them, as well as the tracks page on soundcloud.

This is the Windows 7 x64 edition of mspaint.exe. I used Adobe Audition to import and edit the audio, but one could just as easily use Audacity's "import Raw Data" feature. I imported this as 8-bit, 22050hz stereo audio. I faded in the beginning, as well as removing a long section of noise part of the way through. I also added a bit of phase distortion, as well as reverb and equalization.
Here's a temporary download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/aut9bjrdbn37abx/mspaint.mp3


Windows 7 x64 MS Paint EXE Interpereted as PCM Data

Same thing as with MS Paint. Except this is the raw file. And it sounds freaking incredible.

Firefox.exe

I made a compilation of various interesting sounds recorded from the sound of the light emitted by various devices. Recorded on a Sony PCM-M10 recorder.


The Sound of Verious Devices Recorded Through Light

Reaching out and touching...something...else...

Modem dialup

I exported a black-and-white image of a sierpinski triangle from Photoshop as raw data. I then opened it in Adobe Audition and saved it as a WAV. The only changes I made were spacers added to the beginning and end, as well as resampling. I tried it with a bitmap, but bitmaps do not store data in a suitable form for this.

What you hear is the image, left-to-right, row by row from top to bottom. The black parts of the triangle create a momentary click, and those are heard more and more in similar patterns.

Here was the image I used: http://i.imgur.com/rWaHT.png

I actually ended up stretching the image horizontally to get a better sound, but that was my basis.


data as audio

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