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Artist Martin Klimas came up with a clever idea: he put splatters of plaint on a scrim over a speaker and played music. As the volume was turned up, the paint popped up in the air and he captured the moments in a photograph. It’s a synchronised cacophony of art and music. It also looks fantastic.
I would love to get my favorite songs framed like this, as if the painting captures a physical moment of a feeling towards audible sensations. Klimas used music from Miles Davis to Karlheinz Stockhausen and more and needed about 6 months and over 1,000 photographs to create the series. [NY Times]
Steve Reich and Musicians, “Drumming”
Paul Hindemith, “Ludus Tonalis”
Wasn’t something very similar done on QI with basically cornflour and water?
I don’t know about QI, but I do know that they did on The Big Bang Theory. It works with any ‘non-newtonian fluid’, I think.
The point of that spot on QI was to demonstrate the odd properties of a non-Newtonian liquid, which turns solid when any pressure is put on it. This is just normal liquid.
Err, Martin Klimas never came up with this idea. This ad was made in 2010 by Chris Hewitt (see here hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eSmPNDaVhE) based on an idea by Linden Gledhill who was doing this in 2009. (see here: http://artisticthings.com/linden-gledhill/)
In the NYTimes article Martin Klimas says his “major influence was Hans Jenny, the father of cymatics, the study of wave phenomena.” It’s pretty clear his major influence was copy+pasting someone elses work.
I doubt Linden Gledhill came up with the idea, ‘fotoopa’ already used the technique in 2004 (http://www.pbase.com/fotoopa/water_figures)
It was a CANON advert… http://www.createorconsume.co.uk/canons-stunning-paint-drop-ads/