What can an artist express to the Fukushima Nuclear Plants accident?
The links are artist expressions after one year from the FUKUSHIAMA. Japanese word "DATSU-GENPATSU" is eliminating Nuclear Power and advancing Clean Energy.
Kenji Kojima has been experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, technology,
music and visual art since early 90's. RGB Music project draws out a music from color data of a photograph.
If you are the first time visitor, Please see "RGB MusicLab Subway Synethesia Video".
The project completed 1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011 RGB Music News Archives of the Five Internet News Sites RGB Music News will be exhibited at FILE RIO 2012 as part of FILE Media Art category in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from Apr 10 to May 13, 2012.
RGB values of a news photograph are converted to a music by algorithm.
It was one year project from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011.
Total music archives were 5,016.
The musics were created from the image data of Internet News Site's Photographs.
The New York Times | The Guardian | Spiegel Online | El País | Le Monde
This is a short video RC02(02:26) The actual work is MacOS application. It shows binary data (00000000 to 11111111) of RGB colors and musical notes. The revolving cube is the mapping of colors in RGB color space. One of the bottom corners of RGB color cube is 0,0,0 (black). The top corners on a diagonal is 255,255,255 (white). The points are RGB color values in the cube. The line ties points by the order of the musical notes.
Long Version Video: Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 RC0201:03:59 Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 is a part of RGB Music News Project 2011
Over $20USD donation for supporting Kenji Kojima's art works,
you will get the password of RGB MusicLab
Download Desktop Application "RGB MusicLab" V.39 (MacOSX)
Please install "revWeb" pluginbefore you go. 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.
This Web application shows RGB Music documents of Sound Installation "Subway Synethesia",
and you can try steps of RGB Music composition.
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.
Performance used RGB Music Video-Cam Development applications. The program captures a series of images through a video cam,
then converts RGB values of small areas to musical notes (120 is the middle C) and plays them continuously. Test performances were used color papers and the camera lens was covered by a plastic wrap for avoiding too high and too low sounds.
Software "RGB Music VideoCam" Development Version B07 Screen Shot
Web Application RGB Music Project: Please install revWeb" plugin RGB Music RENGA: New York City Subway, Photographs Spring 2005 - Fall 2007 RENGA is a form of continuing short and collaborative poetry in old time Japan. The beginning of lines of a RENGA became Haiku (a poem of seventeen syllables).
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Please download and install it on your Web browser.
The page asks permissions of local desk and network accesses.
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Please download and install it on your Web browser.
The page asks permissions of local desk and network accesses.
RGB Music RENGA: 999 Views of Skyscrapers from Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, Summer 2009, Version 3 RENGA is a form of continuing short and collaborative poetry in old time Japan. The beginning of lines of a RENGA became Haiku (a poem of seventeen syllables).
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Photographs of 999 Views of Skyscrapers are everyday life of New York City in summer 2009. Everyday Life is a traditional art theme like Hokusai's 100 views of Mt. Fuji. The differences between them are every view of 999 is a same point. The main art form is short musics are continuing for same theme like RENGA. RENGA was linked short poems that became the basis for a HAIKU.
RGB Music Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa Smile Red / Video Sample 4:07
RGB Music is converted RGB values of an image into music.
RGB Space Music Player plays an RGB music with three dimensional drawing of RGB points, changing background colors, and a moving aim on the image of the note
XYZ Music: String Trio Sphere Random Points / video sample
XYZ Music: Cone / video sample
XYZ Music: Spiral Cylinder / video sample
JIKANKEI Version 1.6.4 (FUJYO JIHO) for MacOSX The data source of URL US Naval Observatory Date Services was changed. Therefore application JIKANKEI does not work now.
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.
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.
FILE PRIX LUX 2010: Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica, São Paulo, Brazil Nominated Kenji Kojima's algorithmic composition "RGB Music RENGA: 999 Views of Skyscrapers from Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City" has being nominees to be electronic sonority category of the final Jury selection. FILE PRIX LUX is the International Art and Technology prize offered in São Paulo, Brazil by FILE electronic language international festival.
Digital Art Festival in Brazil (Belo Horizonte) FAD (FESTIVAL DE ARTE DIGITAL)translationExhibition: September 10 - 18, 2010 Webart: September 6-12, 2010 Quina Gallery (Ed. Bag, 2nd Floor - Centro - Belo Horizonte)
PROCESS is a 2 day festival focusing on the sound of systems. Terms like 'process-driven' and 'generative' are expanded to include live performances based on breath, a train-yard video that generates rhythms dynamically, and a large metal 'drop machine' which emulates electronics, with no electronics. The programme features two evenings of live performances and new-media works, a workshop and a special internet commission, and takes place on March 19 and 20 at Ausland, an iconic venue situated in the heart of Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.
Sound Installation "RGB Music RENGA" is an algorithmic composition. It improvises music at the installation place.
Kenji Kojima had been selected in Part Electronic Arts - Section II -
Category New practices of Netart of the 36th Bourges InternationalCompetitions Electroacoustic Music and Electronic Art 2009 for his piece "Subway Synesthesia". July, 2009
May 18 - 22, 2009 Sound Installation “Subway Synesthesia” in RE-NEW 2009 Digital Art Festival Huset i Magstræde, Copenhagen, Denmark
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.
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
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
COMPOSITIONS:
Genome Scale Sonifications 2009 Sonifications were created from DNA sequence data. The left channel of sonification is forward, and the right channel is backward of the genome sequence. There are one of processes of scale conversions on the page, and four compositions at the bottom of page.
