This article describes the tech behind the experience.

Some shapes even smile and sing back at you. Users doodle, scribble or draw on a web canvas and hit play to listen to their art work. This project is a collaboration with Centre Pompidou in Paris.ĭelve deeper into the pioneer of abstract art's colorful life at g.co/kandinsky where you can uncover rare personal pictures and archival materials - some previously undisclosed to the general public - and discover an unprecedented emotive and educational access into the artist’s legacy and retrace his life online.Kandinsky lets you make music through art. There are four chapters to the experience:ġ) Explore Kandinsky's theories on color and sound and the relationship between shapes,Ģ) Hear the composed version of the painting created with help from machine learning,ģ) Discover the emotions Kandinsky associated with color and shape and 'play the painting'.Ĥ) You can create and share your own musical mix of the painting, highlighting your chosen emotions as inspired by Kandinsky. We recommend watching the film above that details how the machine learning model was used.

In a collaboration between sound artists Antoine Bertin and NSDOS, and Google Magenta's machine learning model Transformer, the sounds you hear are inspired by Kandinsky's extensive writing on the sounds he associated with colors & shapes.

‘Play a Kandinsky’ invites you to hear what Vassily Kandinsky might have heard when painting 'Yellow-Red-Blue' in 1925 by bringing to life his theories and writings on his synesthesia & Abstract Art.

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