Sound of an Image
Friday, March 4, 2005
A very, very long time ago...
Before The Beatles, before Mozart, even before Pythagoras, there was a caveman named Ogg. One day, Ogg the caveman picked up a stick and struck a rock in a rhythmic fashion. Nobody knows why he did it, or from where his rhythm came. What we do know is that Ogg's idea has survived to this very day, his primitive beats slowly transformed through time into intricate musical compositions. Ogg's music makes people laugh, cry, and feel nostalgia for days past. Ogg's music sells iPods.
And I think there's a little bit of Ogg in every one of us. My stick is the ability to write software, and my rock is my Macintosh.
I wrote this program a couple of years ago. The people I've shown it to have gotten a kick out of it. Hopefully you will, too.
SoundOfAnImage converts images into music. Sometimes the "music" even sounds like music, especially if you play images with a lot of structure and/or symmetry to them, like these:
Download SoundOfAnImage and give it a try. See what your favorite pictures sound like. It's fun!