Thesis
Music in images: algorithmic music composition from digital images
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00009042
Abstract
The development of the digital computer provides increasingly powerful means for automation of different processes. Today this development has reached a level that automation can even be applied in the production of forms of music, where the digital computer provides means of devising and implementing formal systems for the composition of music. While formal processes and algorithms have been utilized for centuries within the creative activity of music, the tools and technique of their application known as algorithmic composition. [5] This project offers an approach for generation of music (melody and chords) from digital images using their pixel values as input. The computer program reads an image and algorithmically assigns correlations between image pixel values. These values are then transformed into melody and chords, and music is produced using the computers audio interface.
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Details
- Title
- Music in images
- Creators
- Arjun Gupta
- Contributors
- Theo A. Artz (Advisor) - Drexel University, Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vii, 53 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Digital Media; Drexel University; Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 991021888796004721