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RGB Music Project by Kenji Kojima is a composite artwork of visuals, music and technologies
that converts visual data into a music in attempts to discover relation between visuals and musics.
The project core is the development of software RGB MusicLab.

This video was created using Web application "RGB Music RENGA: New York City Subway" and "RGB Music RENGA Player".

RGB Music RENGA / Four Seasons:
Skyscrapers from Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City
RENGA is a form of continuing short and collaborative poetry in old time Japan. The beginning of lines of a RENGA became Haiku (a poem of seventeen syllables).

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Photographs of 999 Views of Skyscrapers are everyday life of New York City in summer 2009. Everyday Life is a traditional art theme like Hokusai's 100 views of Mt. Fuji. The differences between them are every view of 999 is a same point. The main art form is short musics are continuing for same theme like RENGA. RENGA was linked short poems that became the basis for a HAIKU.

Photographs are face blurred images for privacy concerns. The encrypted original images are shown the right column of the image.
If you have a decrypt key, you can see non face blured original images. Otherwise you must wait until 22nd century.


More details about RGB Music RENGA: http://www.kenjikojima.com/rgbmusicrenga/

A music and image player of recorded files for RGB Music RENGA.

RGB Space Music:

RGB Music is converted RGB values of an image into music.
RGB Space Music Player plays an RGB music with three dimensional drawing of RGB points, changing background colors, and a moving aim on the image of the note

Video Sample
XYZ Music: String Trio Sphere Random Points

JIKANKEI displays angles of the SUN and local times of cities and places on the Earth. Sunrise and sunset data are taken from US Naval Observatory Date Services through Internet. The latest version shows Sun directions and FUJYO JIHOU (gradually changing time) that is before Westernized Japanese Clock System.

Longitude and Latitude Map for JIKANKEI

You can get them by a cllick on the map. If you know the adrress, type it. Longitute and Latitude are used for custom settings in JIKANKEI. The map is used Google MAPS.

Small Images / Large Images

May 18 - 22, 2009
Sound Installation “Subway Synesthesia” in RE-NEW 2009 Digital Art Festival
Huset i Magstræde, Copenhagen, Denmark



Short video version of "Subway Synesthesia (includes 02-01-02)".
The original is not a video work.
"Subway Synesthesia" is a software art, includes 10 musics and NYC Subway photographs.

Nov. 6 - Dec.13, 2008
Subway Synesthesia / Kenji Kojima,
AC[Direct], Chelsea, New York City
Sound Installation of RGB Music and Photographs
It is not an impression of a photograph of a musical variation. It composes a score from an image directly.



AC [ Direct ] 547 W. 27th St, #519 New York, NY 10001
Press release English

Installation View with RGB Music

WEB ART: 1996 - 2002

Project Throwing Stones: the Movie

A Tender Attempt to Accomplish Something Possible in This Impossible

Project clones were preserved by Rhizome.org at the New Museum

Throwing Stones / into primeval / onto the moon / into a pond
In a Grove
The Creation of Man
The Birth of Venus
I'm always on the Web / Sky / Grass / Wave / since The Cave / in Forest

Other TIME Works

It Feels Like Time Have Changed...
A Silence of Cicadas
Walk of Seconds / on Grass / on Earth
273+- Part: 0 (after John Cage)

Is the Production of Garbage Materials in the 21st Century, still Art? / Project 1996 - 2001

Project clones were preserved by Rhizome.org at the New Museum

Heavy Material / Light Material
Contrariwise

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 1 (682K)
Includes: Listen the Blocks, Eczema, Fission, TOY

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 2 (821K)
Includes: Virtual/Physical, What's Done, Bugs, Sphere &Cube

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 3 (814K)
Includes: Ripples, Stone C/C/u/o/b/n/e/e, Been Done, Cylinders

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection 4 (1453K)
Includes: SSHPERES, Into The Mirror, Ring, Trail & Perspective

Interactive Web Art by Kenji Kojima / Collection Mirror (1208K)
Includes: Into The Mirror Cylinder, Into The Mirror, Into The Mirror 45D

ANGO Note Version 1.1.7 Shareware One License Key for MacOS/Windows
Cross-Platform Encryption Notes for MacOSX and Windows, Japanese and English
algorithm is "Blowfish, 128 bits".

Genome Scale Sonifications 2009
Sonifications were created from DNA sequence data. The left channel of sonification is forward, and the right channel is backward of the genome sequence. There are one of processes of scale conversions on the page, and four compositions at the bottom of page.

Pi Music created by programming

String Quartet Pi / 5:06 and the process of data
The music was created from the constant PI (3.141592.......) to 3,000 decimal places by programming.

Musical notes were made from literature by programming

Golden Afternoon /1:54
The prologue “Golden Afternoon” in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
O-Yuki / 5:56
The novel “Yuki-Onna” by Lafcadio Hearn.

Other Composition works (2004 - )

EGG TEMPERA PAINTINGS: 1980 - 2004

Egg Tempera Series: Stream 1990 - 93

RGBHexConverter (JAVA)
WebPaletteColorPicker (JAVA)

KANA (Hiragana and Katakana) Quiz SVG

Hiragana and Katakana are sets of Japanese syllabic writing.
Requires: Installing SVG viewer on your browser.

KANA Quiz is free for use with attribution under a Creative Commons License.

REVOLUTION PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL:

Tutorial: Japanese

Japanese eBook of Revolution Programming by Kenji Kojima
Download Sample Chapters (This is Japanese text)

Study Note: Japanese

Revolution CGI:
I believe this is the first trial of Japanese CGI using Transcript that is one of programming languages. You can see the script.
However reading and writing Japanese are necessary.