RGB Music News Archives
kenjikojima.com/newsmusic/

"RGB Music News" is ongoing Web Art project. This is a composite artwork of visuals, music and technologies that converts visual data into a music in attempts to discover relations between visuals and musics. You can see two main pages on your browser. "RGB Music News Archives" and Web application "The Current News Music". "The Current News Music" creates a MIDI file music from a news photograph. Web application gathers current news photographs from five internet news sites. They are The New York Times, The Guardian, Spiegel Online, El País and Le Monde. You can select which news site and a photograph on the application.

The application reads RGB(Red, Green, Blue) value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of a photograph, and converts them to musical notes. However a photograph has millions of pixels then the pixel data are reduced to a mosaic for the duration. One mosaic color makes three notes of sounds, and the length of note is determined by high or low value of the pixel. RGB value 120 is the middle C. Zero is no sounds. The pixels are converted to twelve-tone scale. This music is not an impression of a photograph of a musical variation. Pixels are same as a musical score. The application just makes a path for withdrawing a music.

After some test listenings on "The Current News Music", You can save music files on your desktop which you like. And Kenji Kojima who is the artist of the project sends a music into "RGB Music News Archives". There are six archives. Five archives are for each internet news sites. And the top page of the archives is selected musics from the latest archives.

The project was started on January 1st, 2011. and it continues until December 31st, 2011.
Web application "The Current News Music" requires free revWeb plugin (revweb.runrev.com/)
You can download "RGB Music Player" MacOS&Windows version from the site which plays music archives continuously.