Abstract Thursday: May Day Abstract

Yesterday I was looking through some old blips and came across this one, where I'd used the "visualisations" effect in Windows Media Player to show a sort of visual representation of a piece of music.

That inspired me to try a similar effect today. However after a rather frustrating enjoyable but prolonged time spent on the web trying to get it to work in more recent versions of Windows (and even installing "Windows Media Player Legacy") it still refused to play ball.

I then came across a free app called "Sonic Visualiser" which is rather similar, and that's what I've used here - calling up the effect on my screen then photographing a section of it for my blip.

Why did I want to produce this sort of effect today? Well I wanted to celebrate May Day. There's a very long tradition of the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, singing from the tower of the college at 6am on May Day - starting with Hymnus Eucharisticus (I witnessed it myself in 1973!) and I wanted to apply a similar effect to that. So the effect on the photo is a Peak Frequency Spectrogram of part of that music being sung: no I don't really understand it either but I thought it was quite pretty! (I had problems downloading today's performance so this is taken from a previous year).

Thanks as always to Ingeborg for hosting Abstract Thursday.

Here's a gentle reminder that this Saturday is the first one of the new month (they seem to come round quicker every time, don't they?). So you know what that means? - yes, it's a hosted Silly Saturday in memory of  Admirer. So you now have 2 days to think of something really silly, fun or plain daft to blip then. My Editor and I will be hosting again. The tags will be SilSMay2025 and/or SilS448.