The Formulartic Spectrum
summary
Explains how raw PCM from subway recordings becomes visual and musical art using the web audio API: one-pixel-per-sample visualization of 300,000 samples reveals speech and the ding-dong, then the same data is averaged into 16 beats (≈19,295 samples/beat) to drive synth oscillators, seat-color SVGs and sampled mouth sounds. Builds a metro-card–style PCB/3D-printed gramophone that plays exported audio from an SD card; it works but is quiet and needs an op amp. Node.js tool AVR girl flashes the board.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to creative coding
- 1:19Data, art, and inspiration
- 7:22Visualizing subway audio
- 14:00Corrupting data into music
- 19:21Hardware and physical output
- 23:58The importance of messy code
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