Aguasonic Acoustics, Beautiful Visualizations of Animal Sounds

Minke whale

The sounds of birds, dolphins, and whales are represented in beautiful circular visualizations in the series “Aguasonic Acoustics” by artist and software designer Mark Fischer. To generate the images, Fischer designed software that processes the sounds using a mathematical procedure called a wavelet. He believes his visualizations are a more comprehensive way to analyze animal sounds than the traditional method, the spectrogram.

Blue-crowned Manakin

Bee Hummingbird

Humpback whale

Hoffman’s Woodpecker

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