What a nice conjunction

I awoke thinking about video presentation of macrophotography, in re: Mom's recent invitation from the Nanaimo Camera Club for a presentation via Zoom in March. I imagined an animated exploration, including a monochrome-to-color transition and zooms to details, and a reconstruction of how an image is seen before it's captured, and before it's processed.

And then I opened your flurry of email from last night, which has mostly to do with (1) music/sound, via Abundant Numbers and mapping of images into soundscape of the aurora, and then (2) medical physics, especially in imaging technologies.

In this conjunction of image-and-sound is the seed of something quite magnificent and original, if I could just think my way into it. Part of it has to do with the monochrome-->color transformation, part with sonic encoding of color, but somehow getting beyond the simple this-frequency that-color, perhaps into something chordal representing a palette of color within a frame, based in overtone series. Just how to tune such an array to render as consonant? This needs much better knowledge of spectra (and hardware!) than I have--I can barely articulate what I dimly imagine.

The challenge of characterizing what it is to SEE patterns worth capturing in an array of pixels comes before any translation or mapping into aural imagery, but imagine the blues of https://www.flickr.com/photos/broot/50758848023/ encoded as sound frequencies of tone-plus-overtones to yield timbre as you move the focus of attention and zoom in and out of the image, the timbre subtly altered into an aural image of shimmering blue and inflected with the golden...