Still Night

A painting you can play.

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Still Night

A painting you can play.

This isn't music played over a painting. The painting is the instrument.

For 400 years, people have tried to match color and sound. Most assumed notes translated to hues. It doesn't work that way.

Research found something simpler. Brightness shapes how we feel sound, the same way it shapes how we feel color. Bright colors make sound feel higher, lighter, and happier. Dark colors make sound feel lower, heavier, and sadder. It isn't a code. It's a connection we're born with.

Still Night reads Van Gogh's Starry Night and lets the connection play. The dark parts of the painting answer low. The bright parts ring high.

Created by Joshua Garcia Learn more