Exhibition transforms images of Facebook friends into music
A sound artist named Daniel Watkins has figured out a way to turn images of his Facebook friends into music. If you have ever wondered what your pictures would sound like as music, then you are not alone because Watkins has too.
Daniel is a sound artist and musician and he is in band known as Chestnut. His exhibition transmogrifies the images of his Facebook friends into compositions for piano, transposed onto cassette tape. He is also a writer and is based in Los Angeles, California.
He turned the pictures of his Facebook friends into music by running the photos through a sound editing program.
He then converted the data into WAV files, after that he transferred them into MIDI and assigned piano interpretations to them.
The sound that he was left with was rather sinister, this is not too shocking since it wouldn’t be expected that random sounds would come together in a beautiful melody.
He said….
“In my work both as a filmmaker and installation artist I foreground the decay of medium in an attempt to reassemble the pieces into something reflective of my own narrative timeline. I have garnered acclaim both at home and abroad through showings with (including but not limited to) the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, NYC Bootleg Film Festival, Sunspot Cinema, and the London Exploding Cinema Collective. I received my MFA in Art and Technology / Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts.” Daniel Watkins
You can check out his essays and criticisms through MUBI Notebook. http://noiseandart.com/writing/
Watkins has been showing off his work in exhibitions since 2011. His work was featured in the Florida Film Festival (as cinematographer) in 2013, the Usurp Zone5 Film Festival at the Usurp Gallery London in 2015, and the Electron Salon at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in 2016.
You can listen to two track previews of picturs of Facebook friends into musichere.
