structure from sound

translating spectrograms from old voicemails into topographic surfaces.

a missed call from my grandmother.

a comcast spam call

Using an online spectrogram creator, I converted voicemail recordings into images. These images were input into a grasshopper definition, where light levels in the image are transformed into vectors. These vectors translate points on a point grid to elevations corresponding to the light levels.

a butt dial

resulting topographies.

The grasshopper definition generating the structure.