[eu-gene] Music generated from pictures

[Lauri Grohn]

At 19:26 31.1.2005, you wrote:
> > Computers store two dimensional images in a one dimensional file, it
> > seems a trap to always use the computer's one dimensional view of an
> > image to transform it into sound, as humans don't view the images in
> > that way.
>
>It would be interesting to employ eye-tracking data in this way. Wasn't
>somebody doing something with eye tracking derived from famous paintings?
>Can't remember...

The problem with interactive use of videos or sensors for generation of
music is that what you get is a kind of improvisation and almost never
very interesting. At least I haven't found any good examples.

Yours,
LG