Dancing Colours: Turning sound waves into visible...

Dancing Colours: Turning sound waves into visible sculptures

Artist Fabian Oefner used only coloured salt and a speaker to visually capture ‘sound’ as shown in the stunning images above.

According to Oefner (via My Modern Met), “The idea of the series is to build a bridge between the acoustical and the visual world.”

To set up the project, Oefner wraps a very thin piece of plastic on top of a speaker and places salt, colored with pigments, on top. When the speaker begins to vibrate with music, the plastic vibrates and these odd looking sculptures form for just a fraction of a second. By connecting a microphone to the flash trigger, Oefner is able to capture these very brief moments where sound colorfully dances along the surface of the speaker.

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