Photosounder

Check this out – this video demonstrates how you can extract one instrument from a mix, using Photosounder.

Photosounder is an image-sound editing program that it opens images and sounds indiscriminately, treats and processes them as images, and synthesizes them as sounds.

Sounds, once turned into images, can be modified to achieve effects and results that couldn’t be obtained in any other way, while images of all sorts reveal the infinite kinds of otherworldly sounds they contain. Read more…

Little Life

This music video features garden water microorganisms filmed though a 25 Euro-cent web-cam converted into a microscope. The IR, laser, and LED light used to illuminate the film, were powered by solar energy.

The music consists of samples that were converted from stills of the original film material into sounds and then combined freely to fit the content. Read more…

This video takes a look at beatmaking with Photoshop + Photosounder:

This video shows how to create drums using Adobe Photoshop and Photosounder

We first start with making a snare sound by drawing a white blob in the upper half of the picture and then black out its first half, then listen to it in Photosounder. We then proceed with the kick drum by drawing a curve in the lower end of the image, then the hi-hat by drawing something similar as the snare drum except shorter in time and higher in the image.

All the instruments are converted into “Smart Objects” so that all their copies would be affected when they will be eventually modified.We then place 8 hi-hats at regular intervals on the image on which we are laying out the beat, and we place the kick drums and snares accordingly to form a drum pattern.

We then tweak many aspects of the beat before exporting the final result to a WAV file which we’ll be able to use as a drum loop in any regular audio sequencer.

Photosounder is a program that lets you convert images into sounds and vice versa, letting you edit sounds as images. It brings photo editing tools into the world of sound design.

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Here’s another Photosounder demo – this time looking at how you can turn fractal images and other photographs from around the world into new sounds. Read more…

This video demonstrates how you can do basic vocoding using Photoshop and Photosounder (an application for Windows & Mac that translates sounds to images and vice-versa):

• The carrier signal (a saw wave) and the modulator (HAL 9000’s voice) are turned into images using Photosounder.
• Then in Photoshop, the voice is vertically blurred as to fuse the different harmonics together, then it’s pasted on top of the image of the saw wave by multiplication.
• The result is then loaded into Photosounder in lossless mode with the sound of the carrier as a reference signal, giving the vocoded voice as a result.

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