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RGB MusicLab [Mac, Windows]

RGB Music Project by Kenji Kojima is a composite artwork of visuals, music and technologies that converts visual data into a music in attempts to discover relation between visuals and musics. The project core is the development of software RGB MusicLab.

RGB MusicLab software converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image to chromatic scale sounds. It reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. One pixel makes a harmony of three notes of RGB value, and the length of note is determined by the brightness of pixel.

Quick Start RGB MusicLab:
Double click on the MonaLisa program icon. The program is opened. Drag-and-Drop your favorite JPEG image (You cannot use a double-byte file name) onto the right MonaLisa panel, or from “Open Image File…” of File Menu. A mosaic of the image is made on the left panel. Click on “Create RGB Music” at the bottom right. A progress bar appears. Wait a short while. QuickTime controller appears. You can listen a test music. If you like to save it to MIDI file, click on “Save Music”.

Unfortunately, Kenji had to remove RGB MusicLab from the web site because of an existing patent that enables the interpretation of color as music. Although I appreciate the concerns, there are many apps there using similar methods to achieve this thus I can’t see why existing patent should be of any concern.The download links on the site do not seem to be working at the moment, but you can still get it at this direct download link (via @shbadr)

If you do get a chance to have a play, please share your photos and accompanying songs in the comments below. I would love to see and hear your photos =]

More details www.kenjikojima.com/rgbmusiclab/

See also RGB Music Kenji Kojima’s Digital Photograph Series

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