{"id":2995,"date":"2021-02-11T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1338609"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:36:24","slug":"hear-this-kandinsky-painting-with-googles-psychedelic-ai-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hear\u2019 this Kandinsky painting with Google\u2019s psychedelic AI tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Google has launched a new AI tool that lets you listen to the sounds that famed artist Vassily Kandinsky may have heard as he painted.<\/p>\n

The experiment explores the artist\u2019s synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes one sense to trigger another.<\/p>\n

In Kandinsky\u2019s case, he\u2019d see colors and shape when he heard music, and hear music when he painted.<\/p>\n

The abstract art pioneer tried to evoke the sensation through his artworks and writings:<\/p>\n

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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Google\u2019s collaboration with Paris\u2019 Centre Pompidou imagines the sounds he heard in 1925 as he painted \u201cYellow, Red, Blue,\u201d a striking display of geometric art.<\/p>\n

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The Google Arts & Culture team describes<\/a> the lithograph as a small instrumental work:<\/p>\n

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An extraordinarily gifted artist, he arranged \u2018colored sounds\u2018 into \u2018color symphonies\u2019\u2026 The character of the colors reflected for him the harmonies and dissonances of a melody.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The researchers first trained Google\u2019s Transformer neural network on music from Kandinsky\u2019s time. They then used the system to generate new scores inspired by the sounds.<\/p>\n