Sound May Be Seen - Margaret Watts Hughes japan TheVelvet Underground

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Sound May Be Seen - Margaret Watts Hughes japan TheVelvet UndergroundEthereal and enigmatic glass slides preserve the resonance of Hughes voice in rippling, organic compositions The acclaimed Welsh singer and philanthropist Margaret Watts Hughes (18421907) was one of many inventors of her day fascinated by the visual documentation of sound. Her "eidophone" comprised a tube attached to a chamber covered in rubber, or "diaphragm." Hughes covered a glass slide with grains of sand or coarse pigment, then saturated it with