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ASCII Mel Spectrogram: text pattern from sound frequency and intensity. Higher FREQUENCIES mean higher notes. 'DENSER' texts mean louder sounds.

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Rhapsody in Blue

Fantasia in D minor

12th Street Rag

Cello Suite No.1 in Gm

Rhapsody in Blue

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Audio used are in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses:

Rhapsody in Blue composed & performed by George Gershwin (Internet Archive)
Fantasia in D Minor, K.397/385g (Mozart) performed by Stefano Ligoratti (IMSLP)
12th Street Rag (Euday L. Bowman) performed by All Star Trio (Library of Congress)
Cello Suite No.1 in G Minor (Bach) performed by Colin Carr (IMSLP)

Characters were picked manually to highlight the contrast between notes and distiguish melody-making sounds from background noises:

Fantasia: (space).,ce¢N$W

Rhapsody: (space).-+cg$W

Street Rag: (space).,-om@W

Cello: (space)(space)..,c¢gNW

Data: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Librosa)
Visualization: Javascript (D3.js, Howler.js), HTML, CSS