film 015 · code
10.0s · 1920×1080 · 30fps · one take
The intro film for this site's Music page, drawn by the music itself. The prompt presses play on Tranquil Tides; the horizon is the track's real waveform, a sea of ridges is its spectrum rolling in, and the covers rise like suns on the music's phrases.
Tranquil Tides, a calm piano and ocean track João composed with Suno, from 3:38 to 3:47, after soft typing sounds. No spoken dialogue.
Open a page of music with a picture made from the music: every line in the film is computed from the track you hear, so sound and image are the same thing.
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A Python script decodes the track and writes its spectrum and waveform for every frame. The canvas draws the horizon from the waveform and each ridge of the sea from a past moment of the spectrum, low notes in the middle and highs at the edges.
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The excerpt is placed so the track's two phrase changes land on the picture: the covers rise on the first, the title arrives on the second.
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The composition reads its frame size, so the same file renders this 16:9 cut and the 4:5 phone cut. The page plays it muted; this cut carries the track.