Visualising Sound

For a recent design investigation, I decided to express music visually. It is an interesting challenge as there are established images such as the equaliser and musical notes. If we want to avoid the cliche of these visuals, how do we translate the dynamics of sound on to paper? As a musician, I have a knowledge of sound production that I drew on to experiment with visualisation. Here are a few of my experimentational images; the type of sound represented varies with the appearance of the vector.