Techno Synesthesia:
Kenji Kojima has been experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, technology, music and visual art since early 90's in New York City. RGB Music Project creates a music from color data of a photograph. If you are the first time visitor, please see "RGB values into Music (Mona Lisa)" or RGB MusicLab Subway Synesthesia Video". RGB MusicLab is an application of MacOS and Windows which put together these technical studies programmed by the artist. The latest works treat binaries as pigments which are one of basic art materials, and adapted cipher technologies for an art method.

小島健治はコンピューターを使用した、知覚・認識・時間の関連を探求するアートを、90年代始めからニューヨーク市で続けています。RGBミュージックは2007年にスタートした、イメージのカラーデータをアルゴリズムで音楽に変換するプロジェクトです。これはコンピュータを使って確実なデータに基づいた、視覚と聴覚の境界を越える共感覚を連想させるアートです。RGB Music が初めての方は「RGB values into Music (Mona Lisa)」 または 「RGB MusicLab Subway Synesthesia Video 」をご覧ください。「RGB MusicLab」は、プロジェクトのプログラミングを纏めたアプリケーションです。最新の作品では、バイナリー（2進数）を顔料のように基礎的な制作材料として扱い、暗号技術をアートの方法として取り入れています。

NEWS:

from Spring 2015
"Enhanced Vision – Digital Video" ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community
Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 has been selected for the online exhibition

October 2014
Free 2015 Calendar "Save the Bees" PDF files. US Holidays and Japanese Holidays files.
2015年カレンダー無料「Save the Bees」PDFファイル。日本の休日版、アメリカの休日版があります。

September 2014
My Selfie taken in the project "The Gentle Sway of the Lights" was selected in
The Selfie Show / An Art Exhibition of Self-Portraits @MONA (Museum of New Art), Detroit from September 21, 2014
プロジェクト「微かな光の揺らぎ」の中で撮った私のセルフィー（自撮り）が
セルフィー・ショー / 自撮りのアート展：ミュージアム オブ ニューアート（MONA）デトロイト市 に選出されました。2014年9月21日から

September 2014
10th Cologne International Videoart Festival is launching.
10 minutes edition "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" was selected in the 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival.
The video will be exhibited in video and file festivals worldwide. Greece, Italy, Latvia, Peru, Israel, Germany, Poland, USA.
「コンポジション・フクシマ 2011（10分ビデオ版）」が 第10回ケルン国際ビデオアート・フェスティバル「Alienated Memory」に選出されました。

August 2014
10 minutes edition "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" will join "BRAVE NEW WORLD" Videoart Festival in Berlin-Mitte.
「 コンポジション・フクシマ 2011（10分ビデオ版）」が、ベルリンで催された BRAVE NEW WORLD ビデオアート・フェスティバルに参加しました。

July 2014
Updated interactive "Save the Bees" Calendar" (former name was "Bee in Central Park") 2011 - 2020.
"Bee in Central Park Photograps Calendar" was selected in Webbienial 2014 of Istanbul contemporary Museum. Exhibition Thema was "Bliss".
"Bee in Central Park Photograps Calendar"が、イスタンブール現代美術館のウェブ・ビエンナーレ2014に選ばれました。

June 2014 Solo Exhibition "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" Opening View at MediaNoche in New York City.
	The exhibition is at MediaNoche in New York City from June 12th to July 12th, 2014. The musics were created from news photographs on the net by algorithim. "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" was exhibited in "FILE Media Art Festival 2012" at Sao Paulo, Brazil. The opening view video by Sanae Maeda Buck. 「コンポジション・フクシマ 2011」が、 ニューヨークのメディア・ノチェ・ギャラリーで、2014年6月12日から7月12日まで公開されました。作成された音楽は、ネット上の報道写真からコンピュータ・アルゴリズムで作っています。「コンポジション・フクシマ 2011」は、サンパウロの 「FILEメディア・アート・フェステバル」で、2011年にも公開されています。このビデオはサナエ・マエダ・バックさんの協力です。

Recent Works 

February 2015
Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 Video Document
コンポジション福島2011 ビデオ・ドキュメント

January 2015
LCMIDI Pi / Coding MIDI Music Application for Raspberry Pi (Free)
LCMIDI Pi / ラズベリーパイでMIDI音楽をコーディングするアプリ（無料）

Programming Tutorial (Japaese): LiveCode 7 on a Credit Card-sized Computer "Raspberry Pi"
プログラミング・チュートリアル（日本語）：LiveCode 7 プログラミングを「ラズベリー・パイ」で！
無料の「LiveCode 7」を安価＆小型コンピューター「ラズベリー・パイ」で動かす

December 2014
Make Your Favorite Photo Calendar.
インターネット上の好きな写真をインポートしてカレンダーが作れます。

November 2014
RGBMusic News MIDI Player App.(MacOS only) updated
Recent QuickTime plug-in of Web browser can not play a midi music. The player has a Web browser function and can play a midi music.
RGBMusic ニュースのMIDI演奏プレイヤー・アプリ(MacOSのみ) アップデート
最近のブラウザーのQuickTimeプラグインは、MIDI音楽が演奏できません。ブラウザー機能のあるプレイヤー・アプリが、MIDI音楽を演奏します。



The Gentle Sway of the Lights / 微かな光の揺らぎ
Algorithmic Composition Studies

Current version of Application "Luce" Dp.10, Studies 01 - 12 The program "Luce" captures changing lights of 48 divided image areas through a videocam then converts RGB data of the highest three different values of areas to musical notes. The picture looks like a still image, but the lights that human eyes can not recognize differences are changing very slightly in every second. The program sets the maximum different value of the light and the sequence interval. The program name "Luce" referred the Scriabin's "Prometheus" which score included lighting part "Luce". I am thinking that the program will be used for an installation in empty spaces like hall, and/or for a performance art. プログラムは人間の目には感じることができない、微かな光の変化をビデオカムを通して感知し、音階にして演奏します。プログラム名「Luce」は、作曲家スクリアビンの作品「Prometheus」の楽譜で使われた光のパートから採りました。ホールのような何もない空間のインスタレーションや、ダンスなどのパフォーマンスに使われる事を考えています。

Split/Merge AudioVisual 視聴覚の分離と融合

This project splits an image to audio and visual files. The two files mege into the original image with showing the color pixels and playing the music. A full screen player for Mac OS "Merge AudioVisual Player 06". ソフトウエアはイメージをオーディとビジュアルのファイルに分割して、再びオリジナル・イメージに再生します。 日本語版3分説明ビデオ（Japanese 3 minutes video） Technical Note of "Split/Merge AudioVisual" テクニカル・ノート April, 2014 This is a part of project "Split/Merge AudioVisual". When we treat computer files in binary, there is no borders. You can split and merge them.

Split/Merge AudioVisual: Bee_1380418994 Watch Video (original work is not a video)	Split/Merge AudioVisual: Bee_1380587313 Watch Video (original work is not a video)	Split/Merge AudioVisual: Bee_1381080098 Watch Video (original work is not a video)

Slide show: Bee in Central Park The photographs were used for "Split/Merge AudioVisual".
"Save the Bees" Calendar updated and Added until the year of 2020.
「セーブ・ザ・ビーズ」カレンダーの構成を一部整理して、2020年まで追加しました。


Algorithmic Composition "CipherTune / 暗号音楽" DIY Algorithmic Composition / Image Reversible Music. Video Demo
An encrypted text or a photograph is converted to a MIDI music file, the music file can be decrypted to originals.
アルゴリズム作曲「CipherTune / 暗号音楽」イメージを暗号化して音楽に変換、音楽をイメージに復号 / 2013年


LiveCodeプログラミング初心者開発入門（日本語） 日常英語のような誰もが読んで分かるプログラミング。
日常英語のようなコンピュータ言語。無料開発ツールは MacOS、Windows、Linux、Webサーバーのプログラミングが可能。
LiveCode Programming Japanese Tutorial for beginners

Go to Desktop Application "RGB MusicLab"

Over $20USD donation for supporting Kenji Kojima's art works,
you will get the password of RGB MusicLab
Download Desktop Application Demo "RGB MusicLab" V.41 (MacOSX)
Download Desktop Application Demo "RGB MusicLab" V.41 (Windows)

RGB MusicLab Subway Synesthesia Video
If you do not want to install a plugin, please see this exhibition version video.
Web app version does not run an animation data.

RGB Music RENGA Series Video Sample:
They were Web applictions used a plugin, however the pluging did not work on the latest browsers.

RGB Music were created from image date of photographs.
This video was created using Web application "RGB Music RENGA: New York City Subway" and "RGB Music RENGA Player".




RGB Music were created from image date of photographs.
RGB Music RENGA / Four Seasons: Skyscrapers from Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City

RGB Music Project:

RGB Music Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa Smile Red / Video Sample 4:07

RGB Music Project:
RGB Music is converted RGB values of an image into music.



XYZ Music: String Trio Sphere Random Points / video sample



XYZ Music: Cone / video sample



XYZ Music: Spiral Cylinder / video sample

JIKANKEI displays angles of the SUN and local times of cities and places on the Earth. Sunrise and sunset data are taken from US Naval Observatory Date Services through Internet. The latest version shows Sun directions and FUJYO JIHOU (gradually changing time) that is before Westernized Japanese Clock System.

Longitude and Latitude Map for JIKANKEI

You can get them by a cllick on the map. If you know the adrress, type it. Longitute and Latitude are used for custom settings in JIKANKEI. The map is used Google MAPS.

Small Images / Large Images

September, 2014
The Selfie Show / An Art Exhibition of Self-Portraits at MONA (Museum of New Art), Detroit, MI

September, 2014
10th Cologne International Videoart Festival "Alienated Memory"
10 minutes edition "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" was selected.

August 30, 2014
"BRAVE NEW WORLD" Videoart Festival in Berlin-Mitte.
10 minutes edition "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" was selected

July 2014
Webbienial 2014 of Istanbul contemporary Museum.
"Bee in Central Park Photograps Calendar" was selected. Exhibition Thema was "Bliss".

June 12 - July 12, 2014
Solo Exhibition "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" at MediaNoche in New York City


The opening view video by Sanae Maeda Buck. The musics were created from news photographs on the net by algorithim.

December 2013
Software Art "CipherTune" was at ESPACIO ENTER 2013.
ESPACIO ENTER was the International Festival of Art Science Innovation and Digital Culture. It opened at Tenerife of the Canary Islands.

October 2012 -
Web Biennial 2012 Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum

May 18 - 22, 2009
Sound Installation “Subway Synesthesia” in RE-NEW 2009 Digital Art Festival
Huset i Magstræde, Copenhagen, Denmark



Short video version of "Subway Synesthesia (includes 02-01-02)".
The original is not a video work.
"Subway Synesthesia" is a software art, includes 10 musics and NYC Subway photographs.

Nov. 6 - Dec.13, 2008
Subway Synesthesia / Kenji Kojima,
AC[Direct], Chelsea, New York City
Sound Installation of RGB Music and Photographs
It is not an impression of a photograph of a musical variation. It composes a score from an image directly.



AC [ Direct ] 547 W. 27th St, #519 New York, NY 10001
Press release English

Installation View with RGB Music

WEB ART: 1996 - 2002
Project clones were preserved by Rhizome.org at the New Museum

Project Throwing Stones: the Movie

A Tender Attempt to Accomplish Something Possible in This Impossible

Throwing Stones / into primeval / onto the moon / into a pond
In a Grove
The Creation of Man
The Birth of Venus
I'm always on the Web / Sky / Grass / Wave / since The Cave / in Forest

Other TIME Works

It Feels Like Time Have Changed...
A Silence of Cicadas
Walk of Seconds / on Grass / on Earth
273+- Part: 0 (after John Cage)

Is the Production of Garbage Materials in the 21st Century, still Art? / Project 1996 - 2001

Project clones were preserved by Rhizome.org at the New Museum

Heavy Material / Light Material
Contrariwise

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 1 (682K)
Includes: Listen the Blocks, Eczema, Fission, TOY

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 2 (821K)
Includes: Virtual/Physical, What's Done, Bugs, Sphere &Cube

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 3 (814K)
Includes: Ripples, Stone C/C/u/o/b/n/e/e, Been Done, Cylinders

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 4 (1453K)
Includes: SSHPERES, Into The Mirror, Ring, Trail & Perspective

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection Mirror (1208K)
Includes: Into The Mirror Cylinder, Into The Mirror, Into The Mirror 45D

LiveCode PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL: JAPANESE

LiveCodeプログラミング初心者開発入門（日本語）
日常英語のようなコンピュータ言語。

LiveCode 7 プログラミングをラズベリー・パイで！
無料の「LiveCode 7」を 超安価＆超小型コンピューター「ラズベリー・パイ」で動かす

Study Note: Japanese
LiveCode CGI Basic

RGB-Hex Converter