RGB Music Project Index
RGB Music Theatre


RGB Music Theatre plays synchronized RGB Music, RGB Colors, and showing RGB values. Some of files suggest the sound postion of each color by a target symbol. RGB Music files are on the ineternet server of each composers. Expand the downloaded player file and double click on the program icon. Please select a program from the menu and go.


If you like to show a menu bar (MacOS) or task bar (Windows), double click the background color of the Theatre.

f you do not have software "RGB MusicLab" after V20.
Theatre requires a Player. Download for MacOSX: RGB MusicTheatre Mac V03
Theatre requires a Player. Download for Windows: RGB MusicTheatre Win V03
There are RGB Music files on the Internet. But you cannot see them using regular Web browsers.



Project Description:
RGB MusicLab Project is a composite artwork of visuals, musics and technologies. It converts visual data into a music. It is an algorithmic composition, and it attempts to discover the relation between visuals and musics. Also it is studies whether data translation can be equivalent to human intention another word is an Art in the future society.

The project core is the development of software "RGB MusicLab". The software converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image to chromatic scale sounds. It reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. One pixel makes a harmony of three notes of RGB value, and the length of note is determined by the brightness of pixel. The highest RGB value is 255, and the lowest is 0. They are adapted to 127 steps of notes. RGB value 120 or 121 is the center C, and RGB value 122 or 123 is added a half steps of the scale that is C#. Pure black pixel that is R=0, G=0, B=0 is no sounds.

It is not an impression of paintings or photographs of a composer. It reads a score from an image data directly. You cannot force to control the music by your scheme. You can just be in harmony with colors. You can prepare a path and conduct colors to the sense of hearing.

The project was started September 2007, and the development of software "RGB MusicLab" is still on the way. It creates not only a chromatic scale music, but varieties of musical scale and color score now. The software is free. Anybody interested in RGB MusicLab can download it, and create and publish an RGB music.


RGB MusicLab Author: Kenji Kojima


Please register the URL of your RGB Music Theatre to to Kenji Kojima
You cannot see them using regular Web browsers.
Please download RGB MusicLab or Theatre Player.

The files with image still have some bugs.