and diamond drops turned to half-liquid pearls, and the water went to sleep

joseph goold - watered cross effect(drawing realised with a harmonograph)from harmonic vibrations and vibration figureslondon, newton & co. - 1909from every leaf and petal of these, from every branch-tip and tendril, dropped bright water. it gathered slowly at each point, but the points were so many that there was a constant musical plashing of diamond rain upon the still surface...george

imagine a diamond point acting upon a blackened silver film on glass

original drawings realised with a harmonograph by joseph gooldmusical drawing:in the 19th century, sound had for the first time made a literal translation into drawing and was considered a remarkable phenomenon, though it had already been somewhat predicted by mathematicians. the physical reality of acoustic vibrations was then transformed into graphs by means of simple pendular mechanisms known