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geertje-geertsma.bsky.social
Margaret Watts Hughes had het idee had om haar stemgeluid zichtbaar te maken. Ze vond de eidophone uit die geluidsvisualisaties maakte van haar zang met behulp van pigmenten op een glasplaat. Als ze een man was geweest was ze vast beroemd geworden als eerste conceptuele kunstenaar of zoiets.
March 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
caledoniacurry.bsky.social
These works were created during my residency in Chang Mai. Found objects from the flood piles and treasures from the flea markets becoming part of the Eidophone series, and, the absolute pleasure of being able to work with Chang Mai artisans.
January 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
cpressey.bsky.social
Megan Watts Hughes
Tree Form
1891

An image produced, from the sound of the artist's voice, by a visualization device invented by the artist.

#eidophone #cymatics #resonance #voicefigures #technoaesthetics #womensart

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An abstract black and white image of a tree-like form bracketed by wave-like forms and a multiple horizon-like background, produced by an eidophone from the sound of Megan Watts Hughes' voice.
May 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
How a Welsh singer in 1885 used her voice to create stunning geometric art boingboing.net/2025/08/14/h...
How a Welsh singer in 1885 used her voice to create stunning geometric art
In 1885, Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes discovered that her voice could paint pictures. Singing into her "Eidophone"—a mouthpiece connected to a drum-like rubber membrane — she saw scattered seeds...
boingboing.net
August 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
wfmu.bsky.social
Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone (h/t Fabio). https://buff.ly/47hteBK
Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross…
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September 15, 2024 at 3:00 PM
ornithopterpress.bsky.social
Signal to Noise by Eve Luckring, available now from Ornithopter Press:

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The front cover of Signal to Noise by Eve Luckring, featuring the artwork Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, a 19th century Welsh artist who created images using the eidophone - a device of her own invention.
September 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
evy32000.bsky.social
Visualiser la voix avec un eidophone.
mariapopova.bsky.social Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · Jan 16
A century before data visualization and a generation before recorded sound, a Victorian singer turned inventor set out to visualize the human voice, and used her income to build an orphanage. Here are her otherworldly creations: www.themarginalian.org/2024/08/08/m...
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 AM
bigartthread.bsky.social
Voice paintings by Welsh singer and inventor Megan (Margaret) Watts Hughes, c 1890s-1900s, who created the eidophone, a device that produced visual recordings of the human voice onto glass plates. Watts Hughes ran an orphanage in London and decorated its walls with her experiments.
Abstract image in blue with a curving cone shape made up of curving wavy lines Abstract image in sepia and green with textured vertical shapes in the background and a round, wavy shell-like form in the foreground Abstract image in muted blue and green a rounded cone shape in the center made up of wavy lines with several overlapping textured curving forms in the foreground Abstract image in sepia with several overlapping curving cone shapes made up of curving wavy lines, placed in two vertical columns
November 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM
trashpandaqc.bsky.social
it loves to wave

1st one kinda reminds me of the Margaret Watts Hughs images that were going around - publicdomainreview.org/essay/pictur...
Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross exp...
publicdomainreview.org
December 28, 2024 at 5:29 PM
botvolution.bsky.social
now i want an Eidophone
November 27, 2024 at 12:19 PM
andrewtroth.bsky.social
Good morning
How a Welsh singer in 1885 used her voice to create stunning geometric art
In 1885, Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes discovered that her voice could paint pictures. Singing into her "Eidophone"—a mouthpiece connected to a drum-like rubber membrane — she saw scattered seeds...
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August 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
patcoleman.bsky.social
boingboing.net/2025/08/14/h...
How a Welsh singer in 1885 used her voice to create stunning geometric art
In 1885, Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes discovered that her voice could paint pictures. Singing into her "Eidophone"—a mouthpiece connected to a drum-like rubber membrane — she saw scattered seeds...
boingboing.net
August 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
tedmagee.bsky.social
By Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown using her “Eidophone.” From the Public Domain Review.
a surreal image of blue and white with concentric waves and vertical strokes
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
longtail-news.bsky.social
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MeFi: Picturing a Voice with the Eidophone
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as the Eidophone invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
elhuyarzientzia.bsky.social
🗓️ Efemeridea
Gaurko egunez jaio zen, 1842an, Megan Watts Hughes. Soinu erresonante bat ikusteko fenomenoa esperimentatu eta behatu zuen lehen pertsona izan zen 👇
Megan Watts Hughes
Soinu erresonante bat ikusteko fenomenoa esperimentatu eta behatu zuen lehen pertsona izan zen. Soinua irudikatzeko “Eidophone” gailua asmatu zuen. Ahotsaren oihartzunetik abiatuta, irudi geometrikoak sortzen zituen gailuak.
l.eus
February 12, 2026 at 6:07 PM
jennbarrigar.bsky.social
Picturing a Voice publicdomainreview.org/essay/pictur...
Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross exp...
publicdomainreview.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
loupdeloop.bsky.social
publicdomainreview.org/essay/pictur...
Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross exp...
publicdomainreview.org
August 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
icarousse.bsky.social
“Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images”

Really fascinating!
Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross exp...
publicdomainreview.org
August 4, 2024 at 3:57 PM
thomasmartinnutt.bsky.social
publicdomainreview.org/essay/pictur...
Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross exp...
publicdomainreview.org
March 9, 2026 at 2:49 AM
tridral.bsky.social
Picturing a Voice - Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes.
February 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM