Making Audio Waves That Look and Sound Like Things
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2018
- 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-M...
#waveforms #audacity #science 
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3 hours ago hmm
this is very cool :D
Holy crap 10k views to 250k in 4 days. That has to be a wild feeling especially since its a 4 year old video
lol why is this in my reccomended
you came back to this video?
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 :)
sadly true
Thank you very much. Yeah, only recently did people start noticing me.
@@japhyriddle you're in the recommended! I hope this video blows up.
got recommended this just now, glad this will finally get some well-deserved recognition
It's ok it's hitting the algorithm hard as fuck right now
This scratches the same itch as "turning a sphere inside out." Absolutely magical.
Ha. Yeah, I can see that.
What about "turning a sphere outside in"
WE DON'T GO THERE@@obiwancannoli1920
i'm xoxos, master of audio dsp from decades of agony.
you're nothing dude. you're not even dirt. my mom can beat up your dad dude.
@@youcomment9 Consider watching it yourself. “Turning a sphere inside out” but with family drama and a mild sprinkle of incest
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.
I'm gonna piggy back on this comment since the other one reached 500 replies and can no longer be commented on. Also because I think keeping track of the number of views vs time passed is interesting
In the 12 days since the comment was made about the video having less than 10k views, the video has now reached 120K likes and 1.918 views
Edit: Date is October 18 2023, 00:20 GMT
Yeah its crazy only reason i saw this was because 12 days ago i was shocked the video gained 3k views in an hour. Boy was i shocked when i saw that view count
One of the last comments of the 500 thread is "it reached a million", and it was from 7 days ago, now it's two millions (21/10/2023).
It seems that the growth is exponential: it took 4 years to reach a million and just one week to double that million.
the thing is it's basic effects being apply to an Image, maybe thats me being a little jealous, i am making a python script to make these waveform images with audio in them, btw i have already made the one that's just a Square wave
2.1 mln views now
I thank the internet, without it, I couldn’t imagine bumping into something as creative and imaginative like this!
a moment of silence for your local library
@@ieaturanium574💀
I'm quite thankful for the algorithm for recommending me this video. This was very fascinating!
Yay. Glad you like it.
I came here because of the @Meikurey tweet
@@japhyriddle Wow. Over 50k views within the past 3days and less than 10k over 4 years is insane. The algorithm at its finest.
Well now it blew up
lol I was gonna say y’all blew it up now!
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.
Yes, that's true. I'm glad there are many ways of hiding imagery in audio data.
Don't forget the famous C418 Creeper Head as well!
And there's the picture of venetian snare's cats he snuck onto "songs about my cats"!
Love Aphex Twin just discovered them last week
Came here to mention Aphex Twin, ruclips.net/video/vu--TSmokBI/видео.htmlsi=cbgADiPbX2G2kYDr&t=344
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.
Indeed!
Aphex twin hiding his image in his songs
1.7M views in 10 days after 10K in 4 years, wow
Its 5 years now
@@The_G.2for reals
It has now 3 Mil views
The algorithm has spoken. All hail the algorithm.
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.
The moo sample I used was pretty old I think. One of those classic samples.
And now we use them in ARGs and Analogue Horror!
Jesus loves you so much thats why he died on the cross for our sins
he rose from the dead 3 days later, and by putting your faith in him you will be saved, God bless!!
@@reignellwalker9755
Proselytising? In unrelated comment sections?
It's more likely than you think.
@@purplepedantry Reminds me of an old adage : "If you lack faith, act insecure and full of doubt by preaching to nobody randomly for no discernible reason, for surely that's the best way to achieve a targeted response with adequate attention."
Used to be you had to know your audience. Now they just inject themselves into audiences for a fun surprise.
I don't know why I'm watching this at 3am but i think it's worth it.
Ha. That seems like an appropriate time to me.
Currently 2:30am 😭
4:18 AM for me, oh boy do I (not) love my sleep schedule! My eyes are perfectly fine! My attention span has maybe lowered a bit and my brain feels empty, let's see what happens next! Uhhhh...what is that?... It's raining! Cool!
3:51 am
I ruined the 175 likes :)
That’s actually so creative. My only regret is not finding this sooner.
how
Why is this now blowing up?
algorithm is weird
No normal human would click the video(because of the title), for a video to blow up you need to have series of weird people clicking. Which happened by luck
@@proshlok1So you’re calling me weird?
@@nachyochez750 uhh...no, since i clicked on this video too, well logically if everyone here is weird then no one is.
@@proshlok1I searched “What does a tan wave sound like” and this came up. I clicked on this willingly because i was curious 😂
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!
Yeah, I'm not a programmer, and I like using my hands.
@antoniosworld8885 - If you like to experiment with Graphical sound without using a program then all you need is a 16 mm projector and a transparent film leader. You can draw the sounds straight onto the the film strip :) Norman McClaren made a great demonstration of this for the Canadian Film board ruclips.net/video/8paMx5Hphf4/видео.htmlsi=5cp3PaA3vs5dPecd
Same
that's problem solving and critical thinking at its best!
This "make a program" idea sounds like a fun challenge of itself though...
It may have been years, but RUclips finally showed this masterpiece to us 😌
It just shows you for how long RUclips has been sucking.
It went from ~10K views to over 1.5M in just nine days.
@@DC9V wait really? Sheesh algorithm is strange
@@DC9V yea, when i saw this again, i was like "wait 2million?!?!?" last time i watched it he only had around 50k views
Fun fact: you found this on your recommendations
…how did you know
How?...
This fact isn't funny
Imagine searching fot this!😅
Nope
imagine your heart monitor literally making a circle
It could even make a "filled" heart shape.
I saw this and thought it had a million views! The actual view count shocked me. Hugely underrated!
Thank you.
Now that the algorithm picked the video up, it's on the road to actually getting the 1m views.
@@one_crazed_anarchist the algorithm certainly works in mysterious ways. or wait, am i not supposed to borrow expressions from religions to describe an algorithm? 😅
@@asdfghyterThe algorithm just kinda does whatever it likes
@@japhyriddle did you do something on the video to get recommended?
Why isn't this popular, it's actually a pretty cool idea lol
oh ok
* gets 4x the amount of views *
Jesus loves you so much thats why he died on the cross for our sins
he rose from the dead 3 days later, and by putting your faith in him you will be saved, God bless!!
@@reignellwalker9755 no hate but this whole video, comment, replies have nothing to do with jesus
its already been done about 70 years ago ✓
@@DrRan617Everything has something to do with Jesus.
If you knew him, you'd know that.
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 RUclips video!
Bravo to you, sir
Aw. Thank you very much.
Congrats on this blowing up
*Movie Piracy ad music*
“You wouldn’t download a fish” 2:31
Only you can stop fish piracy!
You would wouldn’t you?
@@matthewboire6843 absolutely not!
* frantically clears download history *
@@derpleyew hmm. I’ll keep my eye on you. 👀
What a neat little video. Nice to see simple experiments like these get algorithmed to thousands of people.
After 4 years people get to see gold content before the pandemic
koko
It’s weird how this video blew up 4 years after being uploaded. God Bless the RUclips algorithm, it brought me here!
"Hey, Doctor, Is my heartbeat OK?"
The doctor showing me what my heartbeat looks like:
Glad to see that the views on this video are suddenly increasing, this was really well made
Thank you.
This video got reccomended to everyone after 4 years, but im glad it eventually did because this is really interesting! I could see something like this eventually be used in some game as either some fun easter egg or maybe somehow in some sort of puzzle. It's just an interesting concept to see soundwaves that look like things we know.
and it's simple to do, so you don't need to be a sound engineer or super proficient to achieve something super cool! I can see this technique being used in indie games, ARGs, and between friends as a little bit of fun! I'm actually going to recommend this to my brother for his next video game creation competition, it would definitely get points for creativity.
@@xxcatcannonxx2246 yeah, exactly what I was thinking of!
Would be curious to see what your brother comes up with, if he ever decides to use this technique
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA YOU GOT IGNORED
@@joellim6988 what
Late to the party, but on the off chance you see this, I wanted to say that this video immediately made me think of a 2002 CG animation called Tim Tom. They use sound waves in there in a way that could easily be gamified. It's the animation that got me interested in CG animation (as opposed to Claymation which is what I was studying at the time) as well as the music of Django Reinhardt. Only a few minutes long, and definitely worth a watch.
Yawn, Xennakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen in the 1950s.
Hella good short .. Tim Tom. Was hard to find due to it's generic name but it is on YT. Now I have urge to watch Fantastic Planet .. another French masterpiece
this is a good way to understand functions. waves are functions, which follow the rules described in the beginning. It must always move in one X direction (usually positive) There is no breakage per one function, and can move essentially infinitely positive or negatively in the Y direction. Functions CANNOT have multiple X values per Y values (i.e., moving backwards, like trying to draw a circle), which can be tested by the vertical line test (if any X point on the graph contains more than 1 Y value, where a vertical line can hit two points on the graph), where it fails as a function if applicable.
Yes, exactly.
Your voice is so calming, i like the straight to the point and calm nature of this video, im so glad the algorithm picked this back up again.
Thank you. I try to not sound like the majority of hyper RUclipsrs.
Jesus loves you so much thats why he died on the cross for our sins
he rose from the dead 3 days later, and by putting your faith in him you will be saved, God bless!!
It's nice to know this has gotten the attention it deserved after so long.
This is the type of stuff I have always loved watching, and I’m glad that it was talked about from this perspective. Very good coverage on the topic!
Well thank you very much.
It may have taken 4 years but i'm glad it got to me in the end, keep up the super creative work man. The cow wave really was magic haha
oh looks like i found the origin of the cow in FL studio meme
Was this cow wave really used in a meme?
@@japhyriddleyes a popular one lol
@@everettstormy Ha ha. That's funny. Maybe I'll come across it someday.
After over ten years of using it, i had no idea Audacity could do this. Very cool video, glad it hit my feed!
I used to do audio production. This video was interesting, brought me back to those days. When I did audio, I found shapes in them as they came. And that included evergreen trees laid down, jet engines and funky clouds. I sometimes had a figure in front of me that I looked at for a moment and played with to see what I could do with it. I never did as you did, but it was sometimes like looking for shapes in the clouds and being able to build onto them or cut into new shapes. Of course changing the shape meant changing the audio, not much time to make new files and do that when doing an article. Thanks for posting this video. 😊
I don't know why RUclips took so damn long to show me this video but it's AWESOME and I am glad you shared it with us! Thanks!
2:52 So that's how the sharks are made
This would be really interesting for a band to do this to their music so that a wave form of their audio would create a series of images
Other comments mention Nine Inch Nails and Aphex Twin as artists that have added images to their songs with spectrographs
There's also 1nf3$+@+0n, the theme of Crabulon made by DM DOKURO that uses an other way of drawing with sound wave since it uses stereo too
Jacob collier added a croc (the shoe) to a song of his called wellll
Xennakis did this with his architectural-mathematical-graphical works as did Messiaen and Stockhausen in the 1950's.
You'd need the original wav files for it to work best, similar to oscilloscope music by Jerobeam Fenderson. It doesn't work well after transcoding and compression, for example the audio of this video itself has the waveform distorted, it's missing all DC offset. The cow is still vaguely legible, but more complex shapes will suffer even more. Spectrogram art is easy to find once you know what to listen for, I once found a scannable QR code in an audio spectrogram.
1 week ago this video had less than 10k for 4 years, and in less than 1 week it reached 1M, you do your job properly at some point it pays back, never be disappointed !!
And we're at a million views, beautiful!
The algorithm truly did right once again!
On the note of the video, this is adjacent to something I have had in mind since my teen years, but sort of the converse.
Correlating images with sound, are there functions that sufficiently map images to, not just sound, but pleasant sound (music) and one that's somewhat discernible.
Thanks for sharing your musings and talents with us!
This is such a cool idea! It has some awesome implications for things like ARGs, too. Hiding images or even stylized text in an audio file would be incredible
Must be weird having a 4 year old video suddenly blow up like this. Congrats btw, great video!
This is phenomenal dude, the kind of content I am craving for when I can't sleep at 3am. Spectacular.
So glad this is getting attention now! No idea why the algorithm does what it does, but I'm happy for you! Very creative work.
Thank you.
Oh.
OH,
OH THIS IS BRILLIANT!
I think using the WAV format should be relatively easy to translate the concepts into a simple program! The only intervention needed is to prepare the two halves of the image, but the rest should be possible to mechanize
Thank you : )
Yeah, I think you're right. It seems like it should be fairly easy for someone to automate something like this. I'm not the one to do it, unfortunately.
@@japhyriddlewell, that sounds like a fun sídle-project that I could pick up for a weekend or two! Thanks for an idea
@@DmitryPodobed Awesome. If you make it, I'd love to see it.
I love this. Simple video, fun idea.
With so many things in the internet this days, some times you just wana see what a fish sound wave sounds like
Love your practical approach to getting this done, great problem solving skills!
I've seen hour long videos that failed to be this detailed and well explained
Aw. Thank you.
great video, i feel like more people should take this style of editing specifically, where i'm allowed to enjoy the video because im drawn in by actually interesting content, rather than the big flashy elements, but i suppose thats off-topic, again, very interesting exploration here, cool stuff! :)
Thank you very much. Everyone has their own speed. Looks like we both enjoy a little breathing room.
Mega Man pfp spotted :D
@@BinglesPhave another one
Such a cool video, I might try to make this into a program to make the process automatic
That would be awesome. Let me know if you do.
words cannot describe how much I love that insert of the squirrel munching
: )
The way you explain things scratches an itch in my brain
2:13 hidden swear top middle :O
You found it! I wasn't even aware I'd let that slip through until some other commenter pointed it out. I guess there was some frustration at some point in the project, ha ha.
@@japhyriddle Whoopsie
you can use the drop-down menu arrow next to the track label to split an audio channel into two mono channels, and then recombine them. much easier than using dc offset and inversion to align your two wave halves.
It's genuinely amazing how youtube can wait so long to realize that a video deserves to blow up. Congrats bro 💯 💪
Super cool that this video took off for you! Insanely cool idea brother 🔥
finally, my biggest question has been answered. thank you for this prosperous knowledge.
Ha ha. Just doin' my job.
Fascinating combination of your eclectic skills and creativity. When you were talking about the constraints of the wave, you reminded me of that video about turning a sphere inside out. It evoked that same feeling.
Thank you. I've received lot of comparisons to that video. I take it as a compliment.
a MILLION views within a week after 4 years of no attention, absolutely mind blowing
this randomly came up in my recommended and you seem like a cool dude, glad your finally getting recognized!
Thank you.
Looks like this just got a push from the algorithm! It definitely deserves it. I find stuff like this really interesting, and you explain it really well.
I'm so glad that the algorithm realises how much of a banger this video is. It may be 4 years later but still. Would love to see more content from you, keep it up! :)
And now it has 1.9 million views from 10k with 9 days. I am happy that it got acknowledged.
Today, I finally learned what sound a fish makes. Thank you, Japhy.
this is uncanny. about a decade ago, I used to wonder if it would be possible to "draw" a sound wave in a program, to see what it would sound like. i found some program linked in an ancient forum, and played around with it, drawing lines. but it all sounded awful, I forgot which program it was, and never came back to it. I have near zero understanding of how sound waves work. suddenly, youtube suggested this video to me, and it's what i had wanted to do, but taken to a wonderful high-quality conclusion. I really have no clue how you made that wave sound like a moo, but I loved it!!!!!
At last the Algorithm has found you.
For some reason I expected this video to have way more than 74k views for being over 4 years old, this is such an amazing video! Whenever I use FL Studio I always think what shapes are even possible on audio waves, and now I know!
215K views now, the algorithm really is smth
@@mariotheundyingholy shit what happened 😭
Now it’s almost at 600k lol the algorithm picked up this video
Don’t know what’s making this blow up 4 years later but congrats this is awesome 👏🏻
The lightbulb moment filament waveform 2:02. Genius.
Thank you. I don't think anyone else has noticed that.
This really reminds me of those two guys that made music videos using oscilloscopes where the sound and video were both the oscilloscope readout and it sounded great too.
You really know how to grab peoples attention, so it sucks that this is only getting recognition now. This should be one of those videos that has millions of views, then stops getting recommended as much, and then suddenly pops up in my recommended and find a new amazing video
Oh my god
whoops think I removed the heart lol
Geeze, thanks RUclips for telling me about this cool video way late in the game.
Any way, this was brilliant! I enjoyed the concept the the solutions!
just got recommended this - awesome vid man !!
Hey. Im glad the algorithm has just decided to bless you, you deserve it dude. I have a question. Do you mind sharing how you made the demonstrations? the animated drawing of the audiowaves? They look great btw, nicely done.
Im literally in the process of creating my first video-essay type video. I've been a video editor for over 10 years, but im useless when it comes to the animated stuff, so it would be a huge help for the future. Thanks and enjoy your new found reach!
this is so fun and I never new about that audacity sculpting feature.
It's been 4 years so i'll be surprised if you aren't familiar, but you might really like the work of Jerobeam Fenderson and Hansi Raber. They specialize in oscilloscope music using XY projections, still very much in this vein of creating pieces that are as much visual as audio
Thank you. Yes, I'm familiar. I played around with oscilloscope art a little before those guys exploded onto the scene. I never made anything very good or interesting, and I never made my things sound like anything. I'm glad they really pushed the art form. So cool. I'm also an owner of an old Vectrex game system, and there's a rather active homebrew community for that machine. I have a video on my channel showcasing some Vectrex animations I made, although it's nothing like manipulating X/Y waveforms. It's so exciting that some people are still interested in vector screens.
Nice, I'm glad someone is also thinking about that, I've wondered about this a long time ago and never dug further into it
3.1m now! After 5years! Well deserved, Japhy!!!
I have no idea how you aren’t more recognized, you have incredible talent
1.9 million view now
Im sure this vid gonna reachs 1Mil soon
Ha ha. I doubt it will ever get that high, but it is nice to see it getting some traction.
That was wonderful. I especially like the cow. Subscribed :-)
Also, apparently a few days ago this only had 10k views after 4 years. Now it's got 1.7 million. It just shows that you don't know when a video is going to blow up. Hope you get millions of subscribers out of this
FL Studio has a built in VST that lets you import images as waveforms called Harmor. It's a little weird, and doesn't always work right, but it's the only example I can think of that lets you do this.
seems like people are getting this recommended, so am i, great video i allways see people make these shapes using sounds without making them sound like the thing that they made so this is way better than any of that
dude you're genius
Thank you.
Very glad you finally got the recognition deserved for this video :)
Thank you youtube algorithm for putting this in my recommended, as someone who (on rare occasions) uses audacity for work related purposes, this was really fun to watch 😁
Glad you enjoyed it.
Not magic, but a highly creative way of working with the technicalities of the system. Highly enjoyed this little video. Big ups!
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I'm fairly certain it would be better to do this via first applying a symmetric envelope according to the net height of the image, and then applying a time-varying DC offset to align everything. You'd need to do this programmatically rather than in Audacity, though, as far as I know. By applying two separate envelopes for the positive/negative sides of the waveform, you're creating a discontinuity in the slope of the wave at the zero-crossing, which will result in harmonic artifacts.
You're absolutely right in every way. Very clearly stated as well. The methods I used were definitely not the 'right' way to do something like this, but they were done with the tools I had at my disposal.
@@japhyriddlethe best tool is the you have and is free 😁
Alternate title: "teaching spies how to send secret messages through audio files"
Thats so cool! I love the idea of making forms out of audios
this video should've been viral
3:02 that is now a mako shark
This is something that has always been in my mind and now you’ve done it thank you
Lots of fun. I've generated all kinds of waveforms adding sin waves of differing frequencies/amplitudes/phases with raw code I wrote in Python and exported as data, loaded into Audacity (using "sample data import" and had a listen. Great fun for a synth nerd on a rainy day! Love your work and cheers from Sydney - Dave
Yo. Just stopping by to say that the video was amazing and I was surprised it got only a couple of thousand views. It deserves more!
Btw, did you name your project "fucc you"?
1:52
Thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you liked the video.
Ha ha ha. I did name it that! Oops. I guess I was having trouble with the process at some point. I never noticed that it made it into the video. That's hilarious.
@@japhyriddlethat just makes the video better knowing it's just casually there
This basically went viral
Short, enterrtainning and educational, I subbed you
This is wonderful work! I have thought about these matters a bit, because I wrote some Java code to generate wavetables for Arturia Pigments, and some of them involved things like rotating shapes. Thank you for the inspiration... now I have various idea on things I can do in my music as well :)
oh man this is SOOO Cool! I always wanted to do something similar by drawing the waveforms in spectral analyzer "somehow" and seeing if any shapes patterns or imagery turned into cool sounds! totally awesome.
0:00 Doodling 0:11 Question time!! 0:21 Random amplitude 0:36 rules 0:48 No outline at the time 1:00 Dense Circle is formed! (W.I.P Please do continue to make it complete.) • • • _ _ _ • • •
Sos?
"What did I tell you man? Now We're both disappointed!"
You are so underrated, im glad this blew up!
Thank you.