Color Yourself Inspired by Andrew Demirjian & James Proctor

A collaborative piece between Andrew Demirjian and James Proctor, Color Yourself Inspired™ is a generative artwork that creates unpredictable poetic phrases from Benjamin Moore’s paint color database; it is an interdisciplinary exploration of sound, color and language that looks at looking. The piece is built from an online collection of over 1000 unique color names that are poetically sequenced using a computer program designed by the artists based on parts of speech analysis. Every three seconds a new phrase combination is chosen and the hue, saturation and brightness of the selected colors determines the location and size of the on-screen graphics. The musical notes map a twelve-tone chromatic scale to the hues of a 360º color wheel. The brightness of the color shifts the pitch over 5 octaves, while the saturation controls the duration of the note. As a composition, the piece asks, what is the music of the language of color?