Where can I find the Aphex Twin demon face?
The original page, which sadly resides only in the web archives nowadays, was all about this hidden “demon face” in one of Aphex Twin ’s tracks, “#2” (the long formula) on Windowlicker. Thanks for watching! This face was supposed to be viewable with a spectrograph program, so I decided to try it myself.
What kind of program does Aphex Twin use?
It turned out that this “picture to audio” -thing was really not hard to do at all and there was a Windows program called Coagula that could transform any picture into soundwaves with minimum effort. Aphex Twin himself had used a Mac program called Metasynth to do his images. I tested Coagula and found it easy enough to use.
What is the name of Aphex Twin’s song equation?
1. [Equation] by Aphex Twin This was the original ‘demon face’ image first found in Aphex Twin’s ‘ [Equation]’ song using a linear frequency scale instead of a logarithmic frequency scale. This is the actual title of the track.
How is the Aphex face supposed to be watched?
So I started messing around with the settings of the spectrograph program, and after a bit of knob twiddling the mystery revealed itself: the face was supposed to be watched with a logarithmic frequency scale, not with a linear scale. A linear scale provided the “demon face”, but with a logarithmic scale the end results were quite different:
When did the song Windowlicker come out Aphex Twin?
” Windowlicker ” is a song by electronic musician Aphex Twin, released on 22 March 1999 as a single by Warp Records. The artwork for the single was created by Chris Cunningham, with additional work by The Designers Republic. Cunningham also directed the song’s music video, which was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Video.
It turned out that this “picture to audio”-thing was really not hard to do at all and there was a Windows program called Coagula that could transform any picture into soundwaves with minimum effort. Aphex Twin himself had used a Mac program called Metasynth to do his images. I tested Coagula and found it easy enough to use.