AstroSoM: The Sound of our Universe

This reminds me of Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia, but more rhythmic and musical.

Both are great for background "music" on your PC.

I hadn't heard of the Hatnote application. Thanks for the info -- I'll give it a go this weekend. I'm looking forward to sharing both sites with some musical friends!

I've used a program called Spectrogram that does the inverse. It takes a sound file and turns it into a visual display. It basically takes an audio file, uses a fast fourier analysis to break it into frequencies and then displays with time on the horizontal axis and frequency on the vertical. One of the things they did with it was to create sound files that would draw pictures.

That's pretty slick. I tried it one time with some simple line drawings, but the results were disappointing (horizontal lines were hard to generate).

You might be interested, I surfed around and found this:

http://www.ultimaserial.com/UltimaSound.html

I suppose you could use this as a fax if you had a lot of bandwidth to spare.

A blind person probably could not learn to recognize a picture by its equivalent sound, unfortunately.