Ford Motor Company subsidiary Lincoln Motor Company has broadened its horizons somewhat, expanding its reach from car manufacture to songwriting — in a sense — with its recently unveiled Music Selfie Experiment.
The premise, if not the technology behind it, is simple — users upload a selfie to LMC's Music Selfie Experiment platform, and the program uses presumably complex algorithms to generate distinct musical elements based on your unique facial parameters. So, your nose determines the percussion; your eyes, the keyboard elements; your eyebrows, the ambience; your lips, the guitar tones; and your chin - the bottom end, natch - works out your face-song bass line.
Not making sense? Take a quick look at the explanatory video below to perhaps better visualise all the white noise:
The site boasts a gallery of existing selfie-generated songs, so feel free to take a trawl through that to get a sense of how different faces impact the sonic result, then upload your own photo to make your own tune.
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