Dream Lab · 4184

Scrying — hear what the camera sees

A vertical scan-line sweeps the live frame. The pixel column beneath it is read literally as a magnitude spectrum — bottom of the image is low pitch, top is high — and inverse-transformed back into sound by an additive bank of 128 sine partials. A bright horizontal band becomes a sustained tone; texture becomes noise; motion sweeps the pitch. You see exactly the slice you hear.