← translations

image to music

The reverse direction. An image is analyzed for color, contrast, and composition; those features become pitch, rhythm, and harmonic structure, produced as MIDI and rendered as audio. Voice-leading rules borrowed from common-practice harmony shape what the image gets to say. What interests the work is the slippage — what survives the translation, and what new thing emerges when a painting has to sing.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Seurat — 1884
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Seurat — 1884 2026 · Digital Audio File
Black Grid — Kandinsky — 1922
Black Grid — Kandinsky — 1922 2026 · Digital Audio File
Rising Green — Krasner — 1972
Rising Green — Krasner — 1972 2026 · Digital Audio File
Garden of Earthly Delights — Bosch — 1510
Garden of Earthly Delights — Bosch — 1510 2026 · Digital Audio File
Self Portrait — Close — 1997
Self Portrait — Close — 1997 2026 · Digital Audio File