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The Mona Lisa Has Been Turned Into MIDI Art. It Sounds…

This MIDI version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous masterpiece doesn’t sound quite as good as it looks.

Have you ever wondered what a MIDI version of the “Mona Lisa”, one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous artworks, might sound like? Clemens Slama, the mastermind behind the MIDI app AutoTonic, asked himself the same question. Visually, the DAW-realized artwork is stunning. Musically? We’re not so sure.

Slama made the piece by carefully separating each region of the painting by color and using a BETA version of his own app to assign multi-channel processing. “After creating my required 18 virtual MIDI ports,” he said, “I sent each region’s signal to separate instances of AutoTonic having all the same template loaded so I can switch Headers from one global MIDI input port.” The result of this incredibly complex project is … cacophonous. Take a look at the video below.

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