How a Welsh singer in 1885 used her voice to create stunning geometric art

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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