In physics textbooks, ripples on water are often used as an analogy for sound waves. Then I started wondering: what would water waves sound like if you could hear them? Click or tap to play a sound and drag to go to the next sound. On the sound taken from the pool, it sounds crackly because the sun was being reflected by the water sometimes.
I thought that with the common use of the water/sound analogy, surely someone has converted ripples to sound before. Surprisingly, I could not find anything like it on the internet, except for earthquake vibrations and radiation from outer space. The way I captured these sounds was as follows. First, I recorded a video of waves. Then, I imported the video into another program I made. My program measures the brightness of a specific pixel throughout the video and uses that to create samples in a .wav file. Since the frequency of the water waves is so low, I needed to speed up the recording until the frequency was in an audible range. It takes about 5 minutes of video to make one second of audio.
