Venetian Snares - Look (from Songs About My Cats 2001)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as an example of artists hiding visuals in audio spectrograms.
What it is
A short clip of Venetian Snares' track 'Look' from Songs About My Cats (2001), shown as a spectrogram. The audio encodes an image in its frequency content.
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What Hacker News said
Cites stuxnet79 · 2022-09 · on “Ask HN: What's the point of audio waveform visualization?”
> It can be art A fact that's been exploited by artists like Venetian Snares [1] and Aphex Twin [2] [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] Say what you will about "IDM" but the whole genre / movement enabled quite a bit of creative expression and range. I'd be hard pressed to see tracks like these being included in albums in any other context.
Cites duskwuff · 2026-01 · on “Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?”
Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My Cats", titled "Look". :3 There's a better visualization of the track here: [this video]