Re: [microsound] [ot] RGB freq?

[Kerry Uchida <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/14/03 3:32 PM, Phil Thomson at hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I don't really expect an answer to this, but does anyone know if there
> are particular specific frequencies assigned to the colours RGB in
> digital video? 
> 
> Here's why I ask: I'm doing a piece with a digital video artist. She is
> going around Vancouver filming things that are red, green and blue and
> then mixing these "tracks" in real time using max/jitter. For the sound
> track, I want to take the audio from her videos and resonate them with
> particular frequencies corresponding to RGB (or some systematic
> transposition thereof) to create an RGB "chord" which will run
> intermittently through the whole piece.
> 
> Phil

phil...

i'm not sure about frequencies but I know that the different
color spectrums run at different wavelengths.  So I'm sure
you can translate that info into corresponding "chords".
Have a search for Color Filters and I'm sure you'll find
the info there.

kerry

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