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JAPAN SOCIETY: Japan Earthquake Relief Fund
• If you are the first time visitor, Please see " RGB MusicLab Subway Synethesia Video". You can understand what RGB Music is.
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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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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.
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Composition FUKUSHIMA, March 2011 Ver.07 01:00:09 (composed from RGB Music News archives)
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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.
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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 "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.
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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
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 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
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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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Small Images / Large Images
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DIGITAL ART EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS: 
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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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