generative music mosaics from album cover art

developed by ian mckellar, ‘musaic’ generates mosaics of album art, where each tile is another record cover
‘celebration’ by madonna

‘musaic‘, developed by australia-born, US-based software engineer ian mckellar, offers a visual way to explore music,
compositing together album art from hundreds of other cover images. clicking on one of the ’tiles’ opens a large version
of that cover image, as well as sets the page to generate a mosaic of that cover artwork next.

to source the images, the project uses the opensource API of rdio online music streamers. ‘musaic’ was developed during
music hack day san francisco 2012, a developers’ event towards the use of programming to reshape the future of music.
programmed over the course of the 24-hour workshop, the application is not designed as a finished project, but viewers can explore
the album art generator in its current state online.

read more at thenextweb, whose editor drew olanoff was live at music hack day san francisco

‘oracular spectacular’ by MGMT

detail view of the tiles composing ‘oracular spectacular’ (torso of andrew vanwyngarden, the righthand figure on the album cover)

foo fighters’s ‘greatest hits’

‘of the blue colour of the sky’ by OK go

‘ready’ by trey songz