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This is some of the work i did with Mark Fischer; who developed a way to view sound in digital form using wavelets; a project he developed to view the whale and dolphin songs. Wavelets is a program currently used by the U.S. Government to compress digital information (e.g., fingerprint libraries). However, the way Mark has manipulated it is now these wavelets allow you to view very detailed information of wide ranges of sound (frequencies in the range of cetaceans... Frequency Range [kHz], 0.00002† to 110 (+3/-20dB)....
This is a little history of the development of 'Four Mountains' .... Four Mountains premiered at Liquid Sound, Berlin, Germany in 2006. The one Mountain was found when Mark Fischer (Aguasonic.com) realized a pyramid shaped image in the nano second before this particular recording of a blue whale. Lauri composed a soundscape for this previously silent Mountain. Now the frequencies of this 4 part soundscape manifest as the colors in this visual representation of Four Mountains. (For those curious, I asked Mark if the angles of this Mountain are similar to those of the ancient Egyptian pyramids … ?still to be determined.)
While viewing this Four Mountains DVD pay special attention to the color variations that follow the sound. The color is directly related to the frequency of sound using conventional mapping. The music is comprised of two pieces 'Paint' and 'Day 5: Wind' (Day 5 is taken from a series composed by Lauri des Marais). AquaSonic blog post on Four Mountains
Four Mountains was premiered at Liquid Sound, Germany November 2006. About Liquid Sound
Beetle Forest
cDVD by AguaSonic (excerpt of a 23 minutes piece)
Coming of Spring
cDVD by AguaSonic (excerpt of a 23 minute piece)