Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Image to Audio
This Metafilter post on steganography reminded me of a conversation I had a couple of years ago with popular sonic Tefal-head Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner). Like the Aphex Twin, Rimbaud was experimenting with making songs using samples that began life as images. If memory serves, he had just finished a track made entirely of pictures of Lenny Kravitz. As one does.
Now, I’m pretty sure Rimbaud uses a Mac, and faintly remember him mentioning the name of the application he used to convert .jpgs to .aiffs, but I can find no trace of such a thing. Does anyone know the program in question? Or could someone with better Google skills than mine track it down?
Much obliged.
Update: Memory is a peculiar thing. Moments after typing the last paragraph, I remembered the name: Metasynth is the software in question, but it is not yet available for OS X.
that is weird as
Posted by Donna at 11pm on 09.08.03
Text in images, less creative but slightly more subversive!
http://www.outguess.org/
http://www.petitcolas.net/fabien/steganography/
and why not try the GCHQ challenge:
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/codebreaking/index.html
Posted by Donny at 9am on 11.08.03
Hello Don - I think the GCHQ challenge is too hard for me:
Couldn’t even find a first string of 4 letters to get me going.
Looked at the answers in the end.
Found it insoluble for poor me, since Safari won’t show the tooltips used to hide some of the clues.
Cried inside.
Posted by J-Mo at 6pm on 13.08.03
This conversation might get some bored analyst in Cheltenham looking at your website though. Nothing like free publicity!
Posted by Donny at 10am on 14.08.03
Not without a link…
GCHQ, Cheltenham
Ah, there we are.
I for one welcome our new codebreaking overlords. Etc.
Posted by Jack at 5pm on 14.08.03
Oh, and Don, how come you always come here via jackmottram.com?
You and the Googlebot are the only folk who visit that domain!
Posted by Jack at 5pm on 14.08.03
Just keeping your logs interesting! Listen, Jack I’m in Scotland this week for the festival and a bit of a tour. Are you around Glasgow the weekend after next or in Edinburgh at all? Give us a mail.
Posted by Donny at 9am on 15.08.03
metasynth is kind of fun for about an hour but tends to just give you multiple variations of the same sound. the idea of it is much better than the reality.
Posted by stirmonster at 5pm on 16.08.03
Yeah, I monkeyed around with it a bit, and there doesn’t seem to be much of a relationship between input and output, i.e. very dark grayscale images sound pretty much the same as very bright colour ones. Which makes it… totally pointless. Or, you know, some heavy comment on the futility of rendering images as sound, man.
Posted by Jack at 2pm on 17.08.03
Thanks
Posted by Genevieve at 7am on 31.03.04