Orgamat, the TV playing.

Orgamat

Transforming the data from the visual domain to the sound involves a conceptual shift is not indifferent. The mere association of the color of a pixel to a sound has arbitrary time, in fact, reached the level of experimentation, leaving room for more complex insights that include also the context of the pixels to be transformed and the shape of the sounds thus obtained. Orgamat of Bjoern Schuelke, is an installation that transforms the visual information of a television program, selected using the remote control, the sumptuous and powerful sounds of an organ to five reeds. Unlike other similar operations, as Groovetube five light sensors are applied to the screen, determining the intensity continuously, translated into their assigned musical tones. In this case the characteristics of invasive video broadcasting are domesticated as sound stimuli, and played with the same intensity and rapidity that, in normal use, tries to hypnotize the viewer. The result of this conversion is an ironic concert sudden notes that follow, changing the tartassamento of the retina in a shrill, but harmless, piece of music.