The title “improbable, imaginary, invisible, tuning sound to bodies, bodies to sound” is a poem and a blurb. This book is queer, playful, and tongue-in-cheek. The 77 drawings of imagined tuning forks range from the geometric and the anthropomorphic, to the saucy and the absurd. They invite a sense of play and synaesthetic interpretation. What sounds would they make?
The layered risograph palette of fluorescent pink, aqua, yellow, and metallic gold, ebb and flow in a way that is reminiscent of Kirlian photography. The colours take inspiration from The Cosmic Octave; a theory of colours, tones and harmonies that resonate with our chakras and the planets. They progress through the pages like a DNA spiral.
Bound with a translucent plastic fluoro-orange coil, the 76 pages are printed on 100gsm inners, with a Munken 170gsm cover. Size: 7x8”, 205g. Design by Studio Elana Schlenker, USA
The original drawings for the book were made in 2016 and after various creative jigs and reels, the book was lovingly printed in late 2023 by Dizzy Ink, UK.
