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How a Welsh singer in 1885 used her voice to create stunning geometric art
jeudi 14 août 2025, 17:37 , par BoingBoing
In 1885, Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes discovered that her voice could paint pictures. Singing into her 'Eidophone'—a mouthpiece connected to a drum-like rubber membrane — she saw scattered seeds gather into precise geometric patterns. She soon replaced the seeds with colored pastes and, by pressing a glass plate against the membrane, fixed the fleeting shapes as permanent images: 'daisies' whose petals unfurled at one pitch and withdrew at another, swirling galaxies of pigment, plant-like filaments that look like nothing ever seen on land or sea. — Read the rest
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