The Kaleidophone (sound of nice images) is a program of musical intepretation of images.

It is based on complex systems logic, on fractals, onsoftware agents. It explores an image along dynamic paths, that depend on thecolors found along the way.
At every pixel explored, 6 different instruments read 6color components: red, green, blue, red+green, green+blue, red+blue.
The colors found are used todetermine:
the note to be played, itslength, start and end of a pause, the new chord possiblyadopted.
The instruments are determined according to colorcharacteristics of the image, at the beginning of the performance,and arechanged at each pause. Also the image is periodically changed.
Any image can be read, but fractals express a moreinteresting music.

If you select the imageExample you can download a short film that shows the program in action. You cansee in the upper left of the window the image that is being explored (you cansee the traces left by the instruments). On the right hand you see the pixelsthat are played, one after the other, projected onto a three-dimensionalrevolving space, the dimensions of which are Red, Green, Blue.
Each pixel is positioned according to its colornumbers.
If you select one of the images, you can download and listento its music. Enjoy kaleidophonic music!

silver1     jupiter1        metal1        arches5         band3               copertina

metal2         chains6        organ2          whirl filigrana2           esempio