{"id":176296,"date":"2021-02-11T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hear-this-kandinsky-painting-with-googles-psychedelic-ai-tool\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:36:24","slug":"hear-this-kandinsky-painting-with-googles-psychedelic-ai-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hear-this-kandinsky-painting-with-googles-psychedelic-ai-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Hear\u2019 this Kandinsky painting with Google\u2019s psychedelic AI tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#\u2018Hear\u2019 this Kandinsky painting with Google\u2019s psychedelic AI tool<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-2021-02-11T124053.154-796x417.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                                Google has\u00a0launched a new AI tool that lets you listen to the sounds that famed artist Vassily Kandinsky may have heard as he painted.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment explores the artist\u2019s synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes one sense to trigger another.<\/p>\n<p>In Kandinsky\u2019s case, he\u2019d see colors and shape when he heard music, and hear music when he painted.<\/p>\n<p>The abstract art pioneer tried to evoke the sensation through his artworks and writings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Google\u2019s collaboration with Paris\u2019 Centre Pompidou imagines the sounds he heard in 1925 as\u00a0he painted \u201cYellow, Red, Blue,\u201d\u00a0a striking display of geometric art.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read:\u00a0How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Google\u00a0Arts &amp; Culture team <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/story\/the-sound-of-colours\/0ALymHuhPl1jLg\">describes<\/a> the lithograph as a small instrumental work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An extraordinarily gifted artist, he arranged \u2018colored sounds\u2018 into \u2018color symphonies\u2019\u2026 The character of the colors reflected for him the harmonies and dissonances of a melody.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The researchers first trained Google\u2019s Transformer neural network on music from Kandinsky\u2019s time. They then used the system to generate new scores inspired by the sounds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BTS: How to Play a KANDINSKY  |  Google Arts &amp; Culture\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-h6wQ2rP4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nSound artist Antoine Bertine, who worked on the project, said the initial idea was to use\u00a0machine learning\u00a0as an archeological tool:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By inviting the machine to express itself, the music kind of emerged by itself, and it felt that as artists we were more the inter<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>ry from Kandinsky\u2019s time to today, rather than the interpreters of the theory ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The experiment resulted in\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/experiment\/sgF5ivv105ukhA\">Play a Kandinsky<\/a>\u00a0an interactive tool that lets you explore Kandinsky\u2019s synesthesia and generate your own musical compositions based on his work.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the sounds he associated with different\u00a0colors and shapes, or listen\u00a0to the entire masterpiece as the artist may have heard it.<\/p>\n<p>But the best part lets you become the composer of the painting, by clicking on colored shapes to produce the\u00a0music\u00a0that you see.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, the string ensemble of the red triangle caused an acute sense of restlessness, but I attribute much of that to this interminable lockdown. The feeling subsided slowly when I t<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed on the peaceful violins behind the multi-colored plane.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t replicate the connections between sights and sounds that a synaesthetic feels, but it\u2019s an intriguing exploration of the connections between music and painting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\">\n                                    Published February 11, 2021 \u2014 15:36 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=378011798897423&amp;version=v2.6\" id=\"socialSrcFacebook\" type=\"text\/template\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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