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title: Painting With Sound - Martin Klimas
description: "After 70 litres of paint and 2 blown speakers, German artist Martin Klimas' spectacular photographs are lusciously detailed, and hint at an answer the question \"What does music look like?\""
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# [Painting With Sound - Martin Klimas](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/spreadable/painting-with-sound)

 Written by [Sarah Cook](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/spreadable/author/sarah-cook) | Feb 27, 2012 4:35:00 AM

After 70 litres of paint and 2 blown speakers, German artist Martin Klimas' spectacular photographs are lusciously detailed, and hint at an answer the question "What does music look like?". Kilmas places the vibrant paints over the diaphragm of a speaker and turns up the volume. For each image, Klimas selects music — typically something dynamic and percussive, like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Miles Davis or Kraftwerk — and the vibration of the speaker sends the paint aloft in patterns that reveal themselves through the lens of his Hasselblad.

View more of Martin's work at [martin-klimas.de](http://martin-klimas.de/)

The Musical compositions used in these images are as follows;

- Steve Reich and Musicians – “Drumming” - main image
- Miles Davis – “Pharaoh’s Dance” - image 1.b
- Miles Davis – “Bitches Brew” - image 2.a
- Kraftwerk – “Transistor” - image 2.b
- Paul Hindemith – “Ludus Tonalis” - image 3

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