A survey of the visual representation of sound in space
A quest to visualise sound to re-present, re-construct and notate, has challenged all disciplines from Science to Art. The research document looks historically into the different ways of visualising sound in order to contemplate how contemporary technology can be used to visualise and notate sound particularly in architecture and acoustics.
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Images:
1. Musica Universalis Graphic, Boethius, 16th Century
2. Flame manometer reading, Koenig’s Acoustic Catalogue, 1865
3. Visible Speech, New York, D. Van Nostrand, 1947
4. “Sound Photographs”, Franz Max Osswald, contact print of sound photographs in architectural models,
from Osswald’s applied acoustics laboratory at ETH Zurich, 1930–33
5. Fontana mix, John Cage, 1958
6. Scythopolis, Vitruvius, 1st Century