Sound sculptures by Linden Gledhill.
I know we’ve finally arrived to “the future” when we can make colour dance.
Dentsu London just launched a project in collaboration with photographer/biochemist, Linden Gledhill, to reinvigorate the Canon brand and promote the PIXMA colour range printer. The project “brings colour to life” through “sound sculptures” made of paint droplets captured in vivid detail as they “dance” in response to sound waves.
Using a high-speed camera – the Canon 5D Mark II, to be exact (with a 100mm lens) – Gledhill will be capturing more mesmerizing formations of vibrant water-based paints. When you see it on video, it really looks like rigged animation, but it’s not; what you see, is really what happened in real life.
How do they do it? Dentsu explains on its blog: “The ‘colour sculptures’ were created by stretching a balloon over a speaker to form a membrane. A few drops of paint [...]