The Gallery
A selection of pieces of music created and the images which were used to generate them.
Grayscale and false colour scanning tunneling micrographs of MnSb. Generated from the grayscale, a pentatonic piece which picks up on the atomic positions: Download From the falsecolour, a piece which is much more sensitive to the size variation between atoms and uses the Phrygian Dominant scale for a sinister feel: Download |
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A scanning electron micrograph of MnSb. The features in this image are long and thin rather than circular, leading to longer note durations: Download |
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A scanning tunneling micrograph of MnAs growing on GaAs. Music was generated from this image using the Japanese Hirajoshi scale: Download |
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A transmission electron micrograph of gold nanoparticles grown on a sheet of graphene oxide. Music was generated from the image and its negative, picking up on the background detail and nanoparticles respectively. From the image using the Japanese Insen scale: DownloadFrom the negative using the Hirajoshi scale: Download |
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A scanning electron microscope image of mould, used by Jack and Simon to generate: Lounge style piano DownloadSteve Reich inspired piano phrasing Download
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A false colour image of Au nanoclusters within NO2 islands on Au{111} - image courtesy Dr. Stephen Driver, University of Cambridge An algorithm was written to generate jazzy sounding chord progressions: Download |
The following three pictures were to allow for comparison between similar pictures with varying degrees of disorder. Download |
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Jack Dobinson and Simon StJohn-Green in musical form: Download |
[2] Driver et al, Ang. Chem. Int. Ed. 46 (2007) 700.
Miscellaneous links
Simon St John-Green and Jack Dobinson: here is our Blog, complete with a working Image Sonification Program.
Resources:
"Music as a gradual process", by Steve Reich
Allele more (with sound) music of the genone