Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 from March 11 to March 31, 01:03:59
The musics of the composition were selected from the archives of ART PROJECT 2011 "RGB Music News",
and made them to MacOS appliction. This video was created by MacOS desktop player application RC02.
This video is "Edition 2015", Translation used by Google Translate.
Download: MacOS only. Player RC03 added Japanese dialog. The latest "Edition 2014" will be uploaded soon.
Full screen and fine quality. MacOS desktop application "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" Player RC03
• The application plays RGB Music files from 03/11/2011 to 12/31/2011 of FUKUSHIMA Disaster, Nuclear and Energy News.
Default setting of the application plays only March musics.
• If you are an exhibition organizer, and interested in showing "Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011", please send email the exhibition details to index@kenjikojima.com. I will send a temporary password for the exhibition.
Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011 is a part of ART PROJECT 2011 "RGB Music News".
The Fukushima nuclear plants accident has not been stopped. It still has been going to contaminate the ocean and the soil. We do not know when it will be stopped. It was not a natural calamity. We must know our civilization caused the disaster. People all over the world was seeing what happened in Fukushima day by day in the year of 2011. However our memory fade away the tragic impacts easily. We must recall the sensation of our experiences and realize what the FUKUSHIMA accident was repeatedly. This is what an artist can do for the disaster.
"Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011" is an experimentation with the relationships between perception and cognition, technology, music and visual art. The composition consisted 335 musics (default March setting is 66 musics) which were created from RGB color data of news photograph's Fukushima nuclear disaster by algorithm. The musics were selected from the Art Project 2011 "RGB Music News" archives (the project was 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2011) chronologically. The project was what news photographs on the internet as reflects of the social phenomenon brought into this world visually and musically.
The music was not an impression of a photograph of musical variations. It composed a score from an image directly. You may appreciate the same elements of visual and audio senses artistically. The art work plays a music with the original image, the mosaic score, binary data of the score, and coordinates in RGB color space of the notes.
Many artists and musicians quested a music in an image, and an image in a music. They used their own perceptions for creating a music. However the method of RGB Music carries out a music from the color data by a computer.
Backgrounds of the Project
• We have an enormous amount of data on the internet. Contemporary artists may investigate an analysis of data with new technologies for the experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, mathematics, technology, music and visual. It will draw out potentials of cross-categories new art forms.
• Many artists and musicians sensed that colors and sounds have connections between them. Some artists and musicians like Wassily Kandinsky (painter), Alexander Scriabin (composer/pianist) and others stated that they could hear sounds what they saw colors, or they could see colors what they heard sounds. It is called Synesthesia. I am not sure whether it is true or not. However It is very curious.
• Musical graphic notation appeared in the middle of 20th century. The composers used graphical patterns, letters and sometimes paintings for their scores. The players of graphic notations played these musics by their own interpretations. The musics were reflected by accidental player's minds and/or their arbitrary decisions. It was too haphazard. Graphic notation was one of interesting ways for searching relation between images and sounds. I wished I would like to have more certain processes of playing graphic notation (visuals).
• A personal computer has been improved rapidly for the last 20 years. Most of contemporary algorithmic composition composers use a computer. Algorithmic composition makes a music without human intervention. Human intervention is in the systematic planning. The composers were not only who wrote computer programming, but the systematic of theorists created musics since the ancient such as Pythagoras, Ptolemy, Plato, canon composers, dice music composers and others. I would like to say algorithmic composition is not only the recent method of composition and engineering matters.
• Many multimedia artists create visual music works by a computer. But they are combined visual and music by artist's sensibility. It is closer to graphic notation player's way. I needed more logical reason the relation between the visual and the music. It was possible using algorithmic composition methods for the idea of graphic notation.
• We often visit internet news sites. We can see so many information on this earth. Besides we can know them in our room. Even if you are on a foreign language news site, Google translate helps.