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NEW ! SOON AVALIABLE: ‎5+5=30 Open the Android app. The camera's viewfinder is visible for 5 seconds, aim the target. Wait for 5 seconds and the music generated from the photo will play for 30 seconds. No user inteface with buttons or selections. 5+5+30= 40 seconds for advertising texts ...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Photo-Music-Generation/109283862487876?sk=wall

Synestesia Software Music developed 1988, 1997, 2001-2010 method for generating music (midi files) from any pictures. 
Listen to the music and look at the photos http://www.synestesia.fi/ 




My photos, videos and music also on Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/laurigrohn/ ...

My new photos

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nagux-Photos/216038815103059?sk=wall   ...

Columbia 2003

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/musicphotos/cd16/columbia2.mid  THIS PIECE WILL LAST 10 HOURS 31 MINUTES. Midi file only (= lower quality sound) !!!   Generated from the photo shown in a few seconds. REMARK: The piece becomes more interesting if you start start and play many copies of the piece sounding at the same time but asynchronously. That way you can create YOUR OWN VERSION of it!    ...

Generative music for a video

http://www.synestesia.fi/video/EW08.html...

Japan: Funeral Music

http://www.synestesia.fi/046/sakura.mp3http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/musicphotos/z05/drops.mp3http://www.synestesia.fi/106/kirkko.mp3 p3...

Once upon a time ...

http://www.synestesia.fi/exp/experiments3/suomenlinna2.mp3 ...

Spaceship Earth

http://www.synestesia.fi/2007/05/fog1.mp3 ...

Sea Bed Vibes

http://www.synestesia.com/2007/11/water.mp3  Water Color Painting by Helena Kääriäinen...

Glissandos: Birds; Zoo; Strange Piano

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You may guess what photos were used for the generation  of these demos:  File 1 File 2 File 3   ...

Laughing Oysters

http://www.synestesia.fi/2007/11/waterlife.mp3   Monotype by Helena Kääriäinen   ...

Alphabet

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/musicphotos/cd1/alphabet.mp3  Photo upside down ...

Music generated from a painting of Miro

http://www.synestesia.fi/076/miro.mp3    Miro: Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman  ...

White-tailed Eagle in Nauvo

http://www.synestesia.fi/2007/03/eagle.mp3    MY FAVORITE PIECE !...

In the Eye of Eternity

http://www.synestesia.fi/2007/07/eye.mp3   Photo upside down ...

Polar Night

http://www.synestesia.fi/016/winter2.mp3  This photo: a stump on the water ...

This painting was created by rain and music was generated and played by a computer

http://www.synestesia.fi/2007/11/rain.mp3 ...       Soon this will be possible just by using Android Phones having a camera ...                                                                                                 This painting was actuated by Helena Kääriäinen: http://art.synestesia.com/index_en.html ...

Humanoid

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/musicphotos/x05/humanoid_0106a.mp3                                                                                                                  The beginning reminds  "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss used in Space 2001, but then ... ...

Shaman music

Kaasivuori, the highest point of Turku Archpelago where I live                                                              http://www.synestesia.fi/086/kaasivuori1.mp3...

Interview with Lauri Gröhn – listen to your images!

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"The last two weeks were however saved by Lauri Gröhn. Lauri’s passion (well, one of many) is an application called Synestesia. Synestesia is a really intriguing concept; Lauri creates music out of images. To make a long story short, Lauri ended up creating an interesting sound backgrounds for Paula Rusokallio’s paintings and my photographs, which elevated the exhibition work to a new level." http://www.the3inchcanvas.org/2010/09/interview-with-lauri-grohn-listen-to-your-images...

Synestesia Method

The Synestesia generation will produce complete compositions, which can be (depending on the parameters) minimalistic, new age or heavily clustered music etc., the genres being a kind of "classical art music". By forming proper parameter sets one could build different styles of "composer profiles". The pieces composed have lasted from one minute to 10 hours. The software is not using any randomness at all. There seems to be various spin-offs of Synestesia Software to many dir...
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