Daphe Oram was a 20th century composer who experimented with her own method of sound synthesis back in the 1950s using images to generate tones. Lots of interesting facts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oramics
I did a similar sort of experiment with a Bridget Riley picture - the x-axis is time, the y-axis is frequency. I think the resulting sound compliments the painting quite well actually!
Let me know if you agree...
First of a series writing music to accompany Bridget Riley paintings. (Bridget Riley is an artist whose work I've been intrigued by for many years, and lends itself to musical interpretation.) For this first work, I've gone for a literal translation of the painting into sound by treating the x-axis as time and the y-axis as pitch.