a blog about sound & signals by windytan [oona räisänen]
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Jan 23, 2024
Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie
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Steamboat Willie (1928) was one of the earliest cartoons with synchronized sound. That is, it had post-production sound effects; this was...
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Feb 27, 2023
Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer
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This story, too, begins with noise. I was browsing the radio waves with a software radio, looking for mysteries to accompany my ginger tea. ...
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Nov 28, 2021
Spiral spectrograms and intonation illustrations
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I've been experimenting with methods for visualising harmony, intonation (tuning), and overtones in music. Ordinary spectrograms aren...
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Mar 29, 2021
Speech to birdsong conversion
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I had a dream one night where a blackbird was talking in human language. When I woke up there was actually a blackbird singing outside the w...
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Dec 8, 2020
Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
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Back in April I bought a vinyl record that had a weird wavy pattern near the outer edge. I though I may have broken it somehow but couldn&...
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