Music art "sound / tracks" that converts car window scenery as it is to music

While riding on a railroad, various scenes flow away from the window, but the art of converting this to music in real time and playing it on the pianoThe 14th Cultural Affairs Media Arts FestivalIt is on display in.

This is because "Peter KNEES, Tim POHLE, and Gerhard WIDMER"Sound / tracksIt is selected as a recommendation work of the judging committee of the art department with a work called "art department." Since the same train window will never come again, the songs are also instant and funny playing.

Details are as below.
"Sound / tracks" is an interactive art that captures the visual impression of the landscape seen from the train window and converts it into songs in real time.


project overview. Since the image is interpreted including all conditions including weather, brightness, speed, camera quality, stains on the window glass, all train trips will be reborn into their own songs.


It looks like this is actually playing.

YouTube - "sound / tracks"


If you are only watching this scene, you may not be sure what is going on.



This gut and compressed thing is, in a way, a picture of a car window that was made a score.


Because the video conditions (weather etc) change once in a trip, it will be a once in a while party with that song.


By the way, the images used this time were taken in Austria. What kind of music can be played in Japanese car window?

© Departent of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepier University Lintz, Austria