Observed arrival · 2026-11-09
Spacoust turns satellite images into sound
A free Windows app that converts satellite images and Earth data maps into music, with an audio preview and WAV export.
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- For
- People exploring satellite imagery through sound
- Worth noticing
- It maps brightness to pitch, dark areas to silence, edges to percussion, and warm and cool colors to stereo position.
Field notes
The page specifies four image formats and says the app uses OpenAI vision to describe a scene and choose mood and tempo. Its mapping table assigns separate scales to dominant colors, while the sample explanation ties each musical bar to a column of pixels. The download is a 147 MB Windows executable; the site warns that Windows may show a protection prompt because the app is unsigned.
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