Chromatophone // intermedia color and sound workshops - Jarek Kordaczuk RGB sensors, color-to-sound translation. Music programming. Contemporary compositional and sound techniques. Midi devices that react to light and color. Light and sound design. Interdisciplinary music and art workshops for children and adults.
Chromatophone intermedia color and sound workshops
Chromatofon is a prototype device built of RGB color sensor and software that translates the read colors into sounds. Workshop participants read the colors of the pictures they have painted earlier by dragging chromatophones over their surface. In this way, these images become a source of sound, and the sequence of readings of their colorful content could be called a musical utterance. When workshop participants take color readings (in musical terminology: they play chromatophones) in accordance with the composer's instructions, we can talk about the performance of a musical piece. The composer's hints are included in the symbols displayed on the screen (type of graphic score). As part of the workshop, four such pieces are performed based on pictures painted by participants. Each of the pieces uses four chromatophones and serves as an exercise in playing new instrument (etude). According to musical terminology, it can be said that Jarek Kordaczuk's work "Etudes for 4 chromatophones" is being performed.
A piece of music performed as part of the workshop: Jarek Kordaczuk, Etudes for 4 chromatophones Etude I / Etude II / Etude III / Etude IV
Colors used for painting the pictures: Paints Maimeri Acrilico 537 carbon black 510 cool grey 266 red transparent 370 cobalt blue light 492 burnt umber 116 primary yellow 339 permanent green light 462 per. violet reddish light 213 provence rose lake 117 golden yellow
Realized under the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland