RGB MusicLab — Convert your photo pixels into music notes

Kenji Kojima, a developer from Japan, released “RGB MusicLab” for both PC and Mac quite a while ago, but it’s a very fun software to play with. Now let’s take a look at the developer’s note:

RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image to chromatic scale sounds. The program reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. One pixel makes a harmony of three note of RGB value, and the length of note is determined by brightness of the pixel. RGB value 120 or 121 is the center C, and RGB value 122 or 123 is added a half steps of the scale that is C#. Pure black that is R=0, G=0, B=0 is no sounds.

This software could be downloaded on RGB MusicLab’s official website; it comes with Mac and PC versions(QuickTime is required to be installed on Windows).

I found this software very interesting that, basically the music your got is randomly generated. You don’t need to know a single music note (this is good especially for music-idiot like me). There is a full instruction on how to use this software; I am not going to do lengthy lecture here. Now let’s give it a try and see what we can get.

The sample picture I used is the one iPanda took in the Vancouver Festival of Lights 2009, all I needed to do is drag the picture to the window on the right hand side:

If you grab the above picture and set your RGB MusicLab into the setting as I did:

And you can save your “music” out as MIDI or AIFF files:

Here is the file I got:

Sample

Cool? Why not try it yourself and share with me what you’ve got?