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Kenji Kojima has been experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, technology, music and visual art since early 90's.
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 Kenji Kojima.
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、視覚と聴覚の共感覚を連想させるアート・プロジェクトです。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。
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NEWS:
Software Art "CipherTune" is at ESPACIO ENTER 2013.
ESPACIO ENTER is the International Festival of Art Science Innovation and Digital Culture. It opens at Tenerife of the Canary Islands in November.
「サイファチューン」が、アート、サイエンス、イノベーション、デジタル・カルチャーのフェス「ESPACIO ENTER 2013」に選出されました。
Recent Works
Feb. 2014
3.11 9999 Years Calendar / 3.11 9999年カレンダー
Another title is "Into Eternity"
Split / Merge Audio Visual 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 RC03", The project started Oct. 2013.
Extended studies "Two Musics Merge into an Image" began in Feb. 2014.
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。2013年10月開発開始
関連した習作「ふたつの曲をひとつのイメージ融合」を開始しました。2014年2月
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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） 日常英語のようなコンピュータ言語。
LiveCode Programming Japanese Tutorial for beginners
FREE 2014 Calendar PDF File Download 無料2014年カレンダーPDFファイル アメリカ版/
日本版 休日
Photographs are Bees in Central Park, New York City.
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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
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Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 March video version 01:03:59
It was selected to be presented in Media Art Festival "FILE Hypersonica 2012", Sao Paulo, Brazil. Kenji Kojima
The musics of "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" selected photographs from RGB Music News which related
with the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident.
2011年3月11日から12月31日までの、ウェブ上の福島原発事故関連の報道写真を時系列で並べて、画像データを音楽にしています。
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Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 March Digest 25:43
The video 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. The actual work is MacOS application.
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Software Development since 2007
RGB MusicLab
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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.
Web Application “RGB MusicLab Subway Synesthesia”:
This page requires"revWeb" plugin. (Firefox or Safari under 5.0)
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.
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RGB Music RENGA Selection Video: New York City Subway 1-18
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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".
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Web Application RGB Music Project: Please install revWeb" plugin (onto Firefox or Safari under 5.0)
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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A music and image player of recorded files for RGB Music RENGA.
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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).
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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 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.
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Please install revWeb" plugin (onto Firefox or Safari under 5.0)
Slideshow with RGB Music: The Twelve Months Botany of Central Park, New York City
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Small Images / Large Images
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DIGITAL ART EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS: 
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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
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FILE SP 2012 Hypersonica Sao Paulo, Brazil from July 16th until August 19th, 2012.
Exhibits "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011"
FILE RIO 2012 as part of FILE Media Art category in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from Apr 10 to May 13, 2012.
Exhibited Web Art Project "RGB Music News"
FILE MEDIA ART 2011: Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica, São Paulo, Brazil
Exhibited 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Installation View with RGB Music
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WEB ART: 1996 - 2002
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Project Throwing Stones: the Movie
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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