I've posted the first result of this collaboration: Victoria, based upon an image of Victoria Crater on Mars. I enjoyed the compositional challenge and am looking forward to creating more music based on images of Mars.
A friend of mine, Moses Milazzo, asked me the other day if it were possible to take the data from a digital picture and convert it into music. Moses works on a project called HiRISE, which is a high-resolution camera that is in orbit around Mars. After discussing it for a bit, he wrote a program to convert the digital data from an image into MIDI information. Not long after that he sent me a MIDI file with about five minutes worth of music--the raw product of his conversion software. By itself the music is interesting, but lacks the structure needed to keep it musically engaging. My task, then, was to provide the structure and musical interest.
I've posted the first result of this collaboration: Victoria, based upon an image of Victoria Crater on Mars. I enjoyed the compositional challenge and am looking forward to creating more music based on images of Mars.
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Anali
11/3/2010 09:49:22 am
This project is so interesting, and I think Victoria is a great beginning! Very cool!
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Kerry
11/3/2010 11:16:40 am
This actually turned out much better than I thought it was going to when I heard the initial idea. : ) Well done.
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