Yesterday Create Digital Music did a post on an application called Photosounder that blew my mind.  Photosounder allows you to turn a sound file into picture which you can then directly edit in a Photoshop etc.  You can play back the edited picture and hear the changes!  In the video example above it’s being used to isolate an instrument but the possibilities for creative uses are vast.

Currently Photosounder is PC only (boo!) but they’re working on Linux and Mac versions.  As mentioned in the CDM post, MetaSynth is a similar application for Mac which Aphex Twin used to put a picture of himself into the spectrogram of his song “Mathematical Equation”  as evidenced in his Wikipedia entry.

Tags: Aphex Twin, CDM, MetaSynth, Photosounder