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Spectral Smear

Reach into the spectrum of one of Karel's recordings and smear a single instant across time — freeze a chord into an endless shimmer, then drag your hand through its overtones.

Loads one of Karel's real recordings, computes its spectrogram, then hands you its frozen overtones.

Drag horizontally to scrub through his piece; press and hold to freeze a single instant into a shimmering pad; drag while frozen to smear time.

The whole spectrogram and every frozen frame come from this take.

Freeze

Or press and hold the spectrogram for a momentary freeze.

Blurs energy across neighbouring bins — from a crisp frozen chord to a wide harmonic wash of his overtones.

Routed through the shared ear-safety master bus.

The dream lab — Karel Barnoski