Bondage
Atau
Tanaka & Eric Wenger
Bondage is
music created using as its sonic basis, photographs of the Japanese photographer,
Nobuyoshi Araki. The source photographs were scanned and analyzed using the
software, Metasynth. The photograph becomes the sonogram representing the harmonic
spectrum of the resulting sound. The image domain becomes the frequency domain
- time traveling left to right in the photo, frequency on the vertical axis,
and panning determined by color. Manipulation of the source image result in
transformations of the sound. Different photos and manipulations of the photos
were used to produce a series of source sounds which were then composed.