Wednesday, January 20, 2010

self similarity.

while digitally sampling a great deal of sound making devices today, I couldn't help but notice that upon zooming in really close on each waveform I could see its DNA. the timbre of each tone is so complex, but there are similarities that you can find in each of them. one of the waveforms resembled that of a mountain range and if I looked even deeper it looked like the outline of teeth.

it is almost a miracle that a simple tone contains the ingredients for a mountain or a set of molars. peaks and valleys. the fundamental laws of physics when applied to the vast amount of diversity that exists in shapes and forms all around us create such beautiful things like symmetry.

I can't wait to keep discovering what is behind each tone that exists out there.

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