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Photographs are face blurred images for privacy concerns. The encrypted original images are shown the right column of the image.
If you have a decrypt key, you can see non-face blured images. If you do not you must wait until 22nd century.
More details about RGB Music RENGA: http://www.kenjikojima.com/rgbmusicrenga/




RGB Music Project
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.




YouTube Video
RGB Music RENGA Selection: New York City Subway 1-18
1560 Views Skyscrapers from Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City







RGB MusicLab: Freeware MacOS X & Windows




This application is a concept and method of Kenji Kojima's art work. It's put together studies of algorithmic composition.
You can make your RGB music by using it.



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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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Series of RGB Music based on 999 photographs.

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





ART WORK BY COMPUTER SOFTWARE:





RGB Space Music:
The player is in the latest version of “RGB MusicLab”.

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


Video Sample
XYZ Music: String Trio Sphere Random Points





JIKANKEI Version 1.6.4 (FUJYO JIHO) for MacOSX & Windows Freeware
JIKANKEI has been developing since 2002, and still continuing.

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:





Small Images / Large Images












DIGITAL ART EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS:



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.





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










COMPUTER COMPOSITIONS: 2004 -
The latest addition in compositions 12/10/09: Music and Photgraphs "A Folklore in New York Cty"



Creative Commons License
This MP3 file is free for use with attribution under a Creative Commons License.
must give attribution, can't use commercially, must sharealike (use same license).




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.


Other Composition works (2004 - )





EGG TEMPERA PAINTINGS: 1980 - 2004



Into The Looking Glass 2, Egg Tempera on Linen Covered Gessoed Poplar, 9.25 x 12 x 1.75", 2003





Egg Tempera Series: Stream

12 x 29" x 3

9 x 36"

9 x 36"

9.25 x 36"

9 x 17.75"

9 x 17.75"




ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:



ANGO Note Version 1.1.5 Free / Create and Read Cross-Platform Encryption Notes
for MacOSX and Windows, Japanese and English
Create and Read Encryption Notes for MacOS, Windows and Multi Language users. Used algorithm is "Blowfish, 128 bits".




RGB CONVERTER:




RGBHexConverter (JAVA)
WebPaletteColorPicker (JAVA)





SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS (SVG) :


SVG is a graphics file format
based on XML(more Info: adobe svg zone)



KANA (Hiragana and Katakana) Quiz SVG

Hiragana and Katakana are sets of Japanese syllabic writing.
Requires: Installing SVG viewer on your browser.

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KANA Quiz is free for use with attribution under a Creative Commons License.





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





Revolution CGI:
I believe this is the first trial of Japanese CGI using Transcript that is one of programming languages. You can see the script.
However reading and writing Japanese are necessary.