In my previous post on sampling I mentioned that the going rate today is usually 44, 000 samples per second. So what happens when you take an ultra smooth sine wave and analyze it so that you start to hear the individual samples?
Well, you hear nothing but a sequence of clicks, separated by silence.
JLIAT convincingly shows how one 1/44khz slice of sampled sine wave consists of nothing other than two strands of silence. One is longer and the other is shorter. The jump between them is where the click is heard. This jump is presumably the sensual trace of the sampled object (the sine wave) translated by the sampler.
Trans.late = meta.phor = across.carry
It's like seeing a hair connecting two objects that are invisible or opaque or voids.
You are highly, highly recommended to look at his website, and to see the other YouTube videos in the series (this is the last one).
http://nonmusicology.blogspot.com
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