MONKEY MUSIC

This project uses code to turn a static image into music and motion. It started by taking every pixel of an image and turning it into a midi note. I made the code stick to a specific key, harmonize with itself, and have varying rhythms based on the RGB values of the image. After the music was generated, I pushed the data back into Max to create an original reactive visualization.

MONKEY MUSIC VIDEO

(3 min 12 seconds)

PICTURE TO MUSIC CODE EXPLANATION

(5 min 26 seconds)

This is the explanation of the Max code that takes the picture and turns all of the picture data into midi data.

ABLETON MONKEY MUSIC EXPLANATION

(2 min 14 seconds)

This video describes how I imported the midi data into Ableton Live, combined it with original samples, and turned it into music.

ABSTRACT VISUALIZATION CODE EXPLANATION

(3 min 19 seconds)

This video explains how I took the Ableton midi data and imported it into a new Max patch that uses a feedback loop to generate the visuals.