Famed artist Wassily Kandinsky could match each musical note with an exact color, thanks to a rare neurological condition called synesthesia. Now you can experience how Kandinsky saw the world thanks to a new online project.
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Google’s Play a Kandinsky project lets you hear what Kandinsky might have heard when he looked at color. The interactive tool lets you experience his 1925 abstract masterpiece Yellow Red Blue through sound, clicking around the artwork to listen to a seven-movement composition that travels through colors and moods as Kandinsky described them.
“Google has taught an artificial neural network how colors and shapes correspond to sounds and emotions,” Sergey Burukin, head of decision intelligence at web development company Greenice, said in an email interview.
“They trained the system on Kandinsky's music collection, making it generate sounds that the artist might have heard in his paintings.”
