podcast: sound of the stacks

Holy Synesthesia! Sound of an Image is a psychedelic application for the Mac that translates picture into music. Quote from Tim Omernick, creator of Sound of an Image:

A very, very long time ago…

Before The Beatles, before Mozart, even before Pythagoras, there was a caveman named Ogg. One day, Ogg the caveman picked up a stick and struck a rock in a rhythmic fashion. Nobody knows why he did it, or from where his rhythm came. What we do know is that Ogg’s idea has survived to this very day, his primitive beats slowly transformed through time into intricate musical compositions. Ogg’s music makes people laugh, cry, and feel nostalgia for days past. Ogg’s music sells iPods.

And I think there’s a little bit of Ogg in every one of us. My stick is the ability to write software, and my rock is my Macintosh.

I like that last line–I like the way it sounds, the way it looks. Librarian, what is your stick and your rock? What does your name taste like?

sound of the stacks