Still Night maps Van Gogh's Starry Night to pitch: brighter pixel values trigger higher notes, darker regions lower ones. The painting becomes a MIDI-style instrument you interact with directly.
This matters because it is a rare example of synesthesia made functional. The color-to-sound mapping is not arbitrary decoration. It follows a rule, and that rule is the interface.
The piece is short but the implications are not. Read it to understand how a single constraint, brightness equals pitch, can turn a 135-year-old painting into something you have never heard before.
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