The audio presentation on polycarbonate disc converts a hand-drawn recording to a sound recording. Two photographed drawings (one on paper, one on canvas) have been digitally converted to audio using the application Photosounder. The digital sound drawings are then converted back into material form using an analogue lathe-cut recording method. The sound of each drawing was determined by the length of one side of a 12” record, 20 minutes (approximately 2.66 pixels per second). The software references graphical sound techniques invented by early 20th century composers, such as Arseny Avraamov (Russia, 1930s) and Daphne Oram (Britain, 1940s) and her Oramics machine. The resulting ambient sound of each drawing echoes the work of pioneering electronic composer Eliane Radigue (France). Both Oram and Radigue played a seminal role in the development of electronic music, as did many women in the gendered histories of computing, computer art and electronic music.
