4 strikes on a nail Sculpture

"Defining Visual Music There are differently formed visual structures that can be called Visual Music. […] A visualization of music which is the translation of a specific musical composition (or sound) into a visual language, with the original syntax being emulated in the new visual rendition. This can be done with or without a computer. This can also be defined as intermedia. [...]" (Jack Ox, Cindy Keefer, On curating recent digital abstract visual music, 2006) I believe the sound of the creation of a surface or a structure is stored within its components. The sound of driving a nail into wood four times was recorded, then analyzed according to time, frequency and volume. A "score" was produced according to the analysis and then the sculpture was created to represent the original sound accurately. The piece therefore is more than just an image of sound or visualisation of data, it is the remains of a performance, it is sound and silence at the same time, it is visual music.