Google Launches Experiment To Let Anyone Hear a Color

You already know that music can convey an emotion. And you know that paintings can do the same thing. In a new experiment from Google, they have put the pieces together to let anyone listen to a painting by abstract art pioneer Wassily Kandinsky. On the experimental website, you can play around with listening to various colors and different parts of the painting to see the world through the artist’s descriptions and commentary about it.

This is one potential future for art ... one where you no longer experience something created in one medium in that channel alone. Aside from the implications for allowing people with disabilities to partake in new experiences, if this becomes popular it may inspire an entirely new job of the future for skilled “experience translators” who can manage this process of making the world’s creations available in previously unavailable formats.