Contact
sugonaut at gmail dot com
Name
Brian Suojanen
Location
Arlington, VA
Artistic statement
When I was just a kid, I’d tune my cheap walkman to cool college radio stations in Boston. But there was often a lot of static due to low broadcasting watts. So I’d listen for as long as I could stand it. As an adult, ironically, I try to recreate those moments.
Software used
Caramel Lite - a little something I coded to learn the Java Sound API.
Method
I am too lazy to play with knobs, buttons, or math…So I whipped up this Java proggie to create textures based on all those useless files on my computer. Caramel is a synthesizer that takes any file as it’s source (or inspiration), and converts it into a .wav file. I call it “caramelizing a file”. There’s no fancy DSP algorithm here. It simply treats the bytes of the source file as raw audio data. The result is “what a file sounds like”. Check out my example, ImageReady.exe.mp3. It is what Adobe’s ImageReady executable sounds like once it has been “Caramelized”.
I typically chop up the sounds using my audio editor, pull ‘em into a FL Studio project, and compose yet another useless file. Sometimes I use ReCycle to create cute loops, and do some composition with an old version of Acid. Either way, I’m having fun with that 1 hour I have each day to create.
Audio
License: Public Domain