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Fleshtones

In which pixelated pornography is turned into piano music.

In 2006 I wrote a little max/msp/jitter patch (nick-named matching mole) that converts onscreen movement into musical notes. Here footage from webcams and other online sites is broken down into a simple tableau of colour bands. Given the subject matter this palette is either predominately pink or coffee colored thus producing a sequence of flickering fleshtones. Using the wonders of max/msp/jitter these fleshtones are turned into lyrical piano music. A music that rises in falls in response and exact correspondence to the onscreen movement.

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