About

Sonosthesia is a project by 2 music producers Jernej Marušič (a.k.a. Octex) and Nataša  Muševič (a.k.a. Dot). Using  music  vinyl as  a medium this  project aims to discover new ways on interacting image and sound.


The main  idea  behind  it is developing a mechanism which allows visible images to be etched on music vinyls with mere sound recordings groove. We achieved this result by virtually 'reading' images as if they were vinyls on a gramophone deck and then using this data to construct a sound piece that visualizes the image itself when recorded onto vinyl.


Each vinyl with music recorded on it has  its own visible pattern showing up due to various reflections light creates with shinning off  it. Each  frequency  and  its  loudness creates  a different reflection and the project Sonosthesia uses these facts in a way as to be able to record any chosen image visibly on music vinyl medium by means of sound.



these are real images (with no fake postproduction) of the first gramophone vinyl with an image visible recorded using merely sound  in history



The possibility to transform an image into sound  directly  has  been  experimented  in many ways before and yet this is the first time  the  physical  nature of  sound  recordings was used to draw a visible image.