I decided to build an online tool that allows you to derive musical notes from any image, so that one could “hear” what a picture would sound like. I’ve seen this concept explored before, however many of the implementations I had come across gave color values arbitrary musical equivalents. I wanted to explore this same concept, but I came across something that would allow me to use some data that was a little less arbitrary.

Go play with the tool here!

Inspiration

I recently watched a fantastic talk given by Adam Neely, New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms. In his talk, Adam…