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as​-​wav

by Van Appears

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'.wav' audio files are uncompressed audio; so you can turn any file into a wav by just sticking the necessary header at the start of the file (duration, bit rate, channels etc.) so that a computer knows how to play it. I wrote a small nodejs program to do that (github.com/van-appears/as-wav) and then ran it against a bunch of files from my computer to see what I could get - a lot of hiss, but occassionally some interesting structures.

Now, if you can turn a file into a wav just by adding a header, you could turn that back into the original file by removing the header. So to avoid any suggestions that I'm distributing other people's software this track is made up from excerpts of files; plus the final set was played through a set of speakers, recorded into a portable audio recorder and mixed back into the sound, to corrupt the original fidelity.

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released March 27, 2024

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Van Appears Belfast, UK

Variously shaped electronics. Someday I'll learn about reverb.

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