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(From wired)
Aphex Twin, who has been described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music," appears to have sneaked the digital image of a devilish face into at least one of his songs.

The spooky image of a creature with a diabolical grin has been accidentally discovered on Aphex Twin's Windowlicker EP, a 1999 hit.

The sinister face is revealed when the song is played on a computer through special software that visualizes sound waves.

Just like the backward messages on vinyl LPs, the face is secretly encoded in the actual sound waves of the music. It isn't a separate file on the CD. The image is the aural equivalent of steganography: the practice of hiding secret messages and watermarks in images.

The existence of the image has not been publicized by Aphex Twin or his record label.

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[xxvespertinexx.livejournal.com]

!!!! I totally didn't know.
Any special settings required to see this?
Anything that helps make it appear as it should?

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

I followed some of the links from the article, and found that the original didn't look very good. I don't know what settings they used. You have/use metasynth at all? I'm still using Modplug tracker for now. Eventually gonna get a korg em-1. Should give me a basic start to fuck around with, at least. Anyways, sorry I don't know much more than the article says...

[seijikat.livejournal.com]

i wonder what "special software" you need. that geist program? i wonder if that would show it?

that's really cool!

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

In the article they said Metasynth.(or maybe it was at the website of the guy who discovered it)... It's a mac program so you may actually be able to use it. I dont' know if there's a demo/shareware version or what. And I'm not sure what settings it would take to show this data. But yeah, it's cool as hell.