Spectrogram | Bird Reproduces PNG of a Bird

Giuseppe Cavaleri
Jul 27
1 min read

Bird mimics the tones necessary to produce an image of a bird in the spectrogram of its recorded song. By itself, this is very cool.

screenshot of a sound that produces a clear image of a bird when analyzed by a spectrogram above the spectrogram analyzed recording of the real bird which mimicked the sound that produces the image of the bird

When presented with tones produced by an image run through a spectral synthesizer, a bird was able to produce the illustration in its song. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/hCQCP-5g5bo?start=1019

Pretty cool. Reminds me-- One of these days I'll write about how I hid a QR code in sound. It was for an augmented reality game in need of a unique puzzle hook.

QR code for Orbs.Quest a website that's still up.

The ARG never got off the ground. But- It was neat idea. Maybe someday there will be a use for it. Have all my notes about how to make it. I'll make a proper post of it someday.

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