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

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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.

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

Music performance & songsInformation theory & signal processingCreative coding & generative art#venetiansnares#spectrogram#electronicmusic#audiovisualization

3 comments from Hacker News

@duskwuff2026-01 · in “Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?”

Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My Cats", titled "Look". :3 There's a better visualization of the track here: ▶ this video

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@Y_Y2024-05 · in “Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images”

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] ▶ this video

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@stuxnet792022-09 · in “Ask HN: What's the point of audio waveform visualization?”

> It can be art A fact that's been exploited by artists like Venetian Snares [1] and Aphex Twin [2] [1] ▶ this 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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