Welcome to Song Maps, songs transcribed by the inner ear.

Song maps are plots of songs through time and frequency, constructed by a cutting edge simulation of the inner ear. Using original computational techniques, I simulate the inner ear as pressure waves of dance along a 3-Dimensional graph. Frequency is segregated into a high resolution matrix that records a Newtonian simulation driving Euler's method. The result is that you see sound as you see the world around you. Watch a song and watch it transcribed into a most fundamental language; formed when ears first began to listen and rooted deep within our biology. Watch as sounds move to the harmony along a map of space and time. 


Song Maps:

Featured:
            Jam - guitar trumpet, andrew mccool, author
            
Movie 

Whole Notes:
            Bach's Invention # 1 - trumpet, author                                plots and listen - more

            Bach's little fugue, trumpet; author
            
plots and listen - more


Sixteenth Notes:
            Chopin's etude, piano; evan penn 
             plots and listen - more


            Helplessly Hoping, voice, jeff and maria                                                                        Listen - Chopin's etude - Evan Penn
           
plots and listen - more

Speech                                                                                                                                      

            Is not love a most ripened commodity? -
            composed and read by the author
           
plots and listen - more                                                                                                 



Diagram Of The Inner Ear:
This site and the computer simulation that produced these images was created by Jeff Knowles.

If you have Matlab, you can try the program. Click here to download the m-files.

If you do not, you can send me an email with the subject "earsim" and attach a sound file. I will run the simulation for you and send you back a plot.

Copyright all content herein by Jeff Knowles,                   Blog ~ Downloads  ~ Work                                                                            2009.