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The project completed 1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011
RGB Music News Archives of the Five Internet News Sites


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

 


Daily RGB Music News Video
08/13/2011 - 12/31/2011

Most of all smart phones and tablets cannot play MIDI musics of RGB Music News, then It has been making since 8/13/2011. The video is daily archives of algorithmic compositon "RGB Music News" that is created by color data of Web site's news photographs. It shows binary data of colors and musical notes. 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 value positions in the cube. The line ties points by the order of the musical notes.




 Composition FUKUSHIMA, March 2011 Ver.07 01:00:09 (composed from RGB Music News archives)

This is a short video demo Ver.05 (09:46) which was selected RGB Music News archives from March 11th to 14th of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. 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.






Software Development since 2007
RGB MusicLab



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 "RGB MusicLab" V.39 (MacOSX)




Web Application “RGB MusicLab Subway Synesthesia”: This page requires"revWeb" plugin.



Please install "revWeb" plugin before 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.






Development
RGB Music Video-Cam Test Performances 2011


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


Test Performance Videos
RGB MVC Test Performance 07, September 2011
RGB MVC Test Performance 06, September 2011
RGBMVC Test Performance 04-3, September 2011
RGBMVC Test Performance 04-1, September 2011
RGBMVC Test Performance 03, August 2011
RGBMVC Test Performance 02, July 2011
RGBMVC Test Performance 01, July 2011




RGB Music RENGA Selection Video: New York City Subway 1-18




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".




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).



This page requires "revWeb" plugin. Open the page.  
Please download and install it on your Web browser.
The page asks permissions of local desk and network accesses.

Series of RGB Music based on New York City Subway photographs.




RGB MUSIC RENGA PLAYER: for New York City Subway, MacOS and Windows Beta 02, July 23, 2010



A music and image player of recorded files for RGB Music RENGA.



RGB Music RENGA / Four Seasons:
Skyscrapers from Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City

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).

This page requires "revWeb" plugin. Open the page.  
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).

This page requires "revWeb" plugin. Open the page.  
Please download and install it on your Web browser.
The page asks permissions of local desk and network accesses.

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 Space Music:

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.





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.








PHOTOGRAPHS:





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DIGITAL ART EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS:



FILE MEDIA ART 2011: Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica, São Paulo, Brazil
Web Art Project "RGB Music News"

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) translation Exhibition: September 10 - 18, 2010
Webart: September 6-12, 2010 Quina Gallery (Ed. Bag, 2nd Floor - Centro - Belo Horizonte)



Exhibited work "RGB Music RENGA: New York City Subway by Kenji Kojima"





March 19th, 20th, 2010
PROCESS Festival Ausland, Berlin, Germany

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.





July 2009
CONCOURS INTERNATIONAUX DE BOURGES 2009
Musiques Electroacoustiques et Arts Electroniques, Catégorie : tendance Netart

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



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 Throwing Stones: the Movie



A Tender Attempt to Accomplish Something Possible in This Impossible

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

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





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.



Pi Music created by programming


String Quartet Pi / 5:06 and the process of data
The music was created from the constant PI (3.141592.......) to 3,000 decimal places by programming.



Musical notes were made from literature by programming

Golden Afternoon /1:54
The prologue “Golden Afternoon” in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
O-Yuki / 5:56
The novel “Yuki-Onna” by Lafcadio Hearn.






RGB CONVERTER:




RGBHexConverter (JAVA)
WebPaletteColorPicker (JAVA)





REVOLUTION PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL:



Tutorial: Japanese





eBOOK: Japanese



Japanese eBook of Revolution Programming by Kenji Kojima
Download Sample Chapters (This is Japanese text)




Study Note
: Japanese





Study Note
: Japanese CGI Basic