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Pixels into Music

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Helen
Thorington

rgb_musiclab.jpgRGB musiclab: pixels into music - There’s a downloadable freeware application that converts the RGB (Red, Green & Blue) values of an image to chromatic scale sounds. The program reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. 1 pixel makes a harmony of three note of RGB value, & the length of note is determined by brightness of the pixel.

“it is not an impression of paintings or photographs of a composer. it reads a score from an image data directly.”

You can listen to the Mona Lisa music and other compositions here. There are instructions on the site — How to create your RGB Music.

Thanks to http://infosthetics.com.


Nov 13, 2007
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  1. lematt:

    nice !
    it reminds me an app that AFX used to use…

    Nov 14, 04:02

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