Seeing the shape of a sound
Moving between sound and image with Chrome Music Lab.
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TimeThe date of an event, the duration of experience, and the changing context of looking back.Explore in AtlasRepresentationAn account that preserves some distinctions and collapses others for an inquiry or action.Explore in AtlasMusicThinking about sound, silence, rhythm and timbre through time.Explore in Atlas
Chrome Music Lab’s Spectrogram experiment visualises sound.
Try: Select a sample sound. Listen first, then watch the visual change. Where do the duration you hear and the trace you see align? Can the trace convey every quality of the sound? Open the external experiment in a supported browser.
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Source: Chrome Music Lab — Spectrogram
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When do rhythms align?
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