Making Audio Waves That Look and Sound Like Things

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Published 2018-12-03

Here is a short documentary I made of my explorations into this silly concept. During the creation of this video, I discovered a number of other interesting facets relating to the look of audio waves, but I wanted to keep this video short. Perhaps I'll create another video to include those other discoveries.

Cow and fish waves for download:
drive.google.com/open?id=1l-Mmw4EP8tNjU3ivryS54YrA…

#waveforms #audacity #science

All Comments (21)

@japhyriddle 8 months ago

If this video interested you, you might enjoy these others: • An Audio Wave that Looks Like a Face https://youtu.be/cwORLZRrN-s?si=y7ng8lgouGIvH3vI • Audio Raster Machine https://youtu.be/z_H6chzt8fs?si=4HLsV3rBXAhMuPuA • Infinite ASCII Cats by Means of Teletype https://youtu.be/0xoJO83oU3o?si=xEkE5HjEuR3p3eRt
@andrewbowers8402 8 months ago

This scratches the same itch as "turning a sphere inside out." Absolutely magical.
@sumanthmoole 8 months ago

the fact this has less than 10k views after 4 years is so disappointing, this is such an awesome video! glad it’s getting recommended to new faces like me, loved the video bro :)
@GGCannon 8 months ago

1.5 Million views in the past 9 days and I gotta say, definitely deserved. There is just something magical about seeing a cow shaped sound wave that actually sounds just like a cow.
@Shahriar019 8 months ago

I thank the internet, without it, I couldn’t imagine bumping into something as creative and imaginative like this!
@doodledevore7745 8 months ago

I'm quite thankful for the algorithm for recommending me this video. This was very fascinating!
@aBucketOfPuppies 8 months ago

This is much more commonly used with Spectrographs, which use the fourier transform of the sound. Nine Inch Nails had a song that contained an image of a giant hand reaching down and touching earth. Aphex Twin even had a selfie.
@Ender_Onryo 8 months ago

This is amazing, I've always had the idea of hiding Easter Eggs in the audio of a movie or similar and this would be a perfect way to do it while still having applicable audio.
@PenguinBoi27 8 months ago

Why is this now blowing up?
@ASqdrnDA 8 months ago

This feels like one of those easter eggs you can find in some old audio abandonware. Which means it feels like an old memory, especially since the cow moo sounded a little low quality. I love it.
@antoniosworld8885 8 months ago

I thought you had made a program that automatically converts images to soundwave samples, but it was actually quite simple as in a "you're able to recreate it at home" kind of simple. Nice!
@SubscriberCounts 8 months ago

1.7M views in 10 days after 10K in 4 years, wow
@JuliRat 8 months ago

That’s actually so creative. My only regret is not finding this sooner.
@osheridan 8 months ago

It may have been years, but YouTube finally showed this masterpiece to us 😌
@Ranyyz 8 months ago

I saw this and thought it had a million views! The actual view count shocked me. Hugely underrated!
@Ars3nic. 7 months ago

imagine your heart monitor literally making a circle
@alexandradelliou 8 months ago

This is amazing Your gradual showing of the process just makes it feel like we're right along for the ride The editing, the narrating, the steps you took... THIS is a quality YouTube video! Bravo to you, sir
@paranomac 8 months ago

Why isn't this popular, it's actually a pretty cool idea lol
@Afrotreehousearts 5 years ago

I don't know why I'm watching this at 3am but i think it's worth it.
@zanedobler 5 months ago

Congrats on this blowing up