colorToSound

Convert pigment to pixel to sound

Physical artwork --> Digitalization --> Sound (Pigment) --> (Pixel) --> (frequency)

Convert every color on Joan Miró's Mural, March 20, 1961 (pixel by pixel) to sounds
For Project #1 of STEAM with US Harvard Graduate School of Education

By Ming Tu, DIET, Harvard Art Museums

Processing 2

• Press any key to toggle between color mode (fill the canvas by the current pixel being read) and painting mode (show the painting and a moving square for selecting a pixel)
• Click your mouse anywhere on the canvas to hear the sound converted from the clicked pixel

Reference:

1. Pixel array example from Processing.org https://processing.org/examples/pixelarray.html
2. Instrument from Minim library for Processing 2 http://code.compartmental.net/minim/instrument_instrument.html
3. Color to Sound by Ignacio de Salterain from OpenProcessing.org http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/4121