446: Sound of Garfield
| Sound of Garfield |
 Made by: Toni Ylisirniö |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The author turned a strip involving sound (namely, phone calls) into an actual MP3 file (as described in more depth below). The result is very cacophonous and rather disconcerting - the admins are dead-on when describing it as something from a 50's sci-fi movie.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Download MP3 file of this comic (943 kB).
The image is the display from a frequency analyser. Low frequencies at the bottom, high at the top. The image was turned into sound by additive sine synthesis with each line of the image modulating a sine at a note frequency in the equal temperament scale starting from C0 at 16.35 Hz all the way up to 19.9 kHz, 124 half steps away. Horizontal resolution was selected to be 10 pixels per second to lessen the spread of the low frequencies in the analyser display.
Original strip: 1978-11-19
Administrator Note: I think Jim Davis could write electronic music for 1950s style science fiction movies!
Transcript[edit | edit source]
SFX: {Garfield} rowr! ffft! rowr!
SFX: {Odie} bark! bark!
Jon: Onoe more sound out of you two, and you're in big trouble!
Phone: ring!
Jon: Hello?
SFX: {over phone} bark! rowr!
