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The book Sound Forms explores historical efforts to visualize sound — from Aristotle through Chladni’s sound figures, Kandinsky’s theories, and Pešánek’s color piano, to contemporary digital scores. In its concluding section, the author summarizes a typology of shapes and graphemes used in sound visualizations, citing authors, compositions, and their periods of origin.

Within the framework of the SHIFT presentation, this project demonstrates the transformation of sound from an immaterial and ephemeral phenomenon into a visual graphic language that is both analyzable and aesthetically compelling. Sound Forms shows how graphic design can capture the structure of our perception of sound and translate it into a visual experience.

At the same time, the publication opens a broader inquiry into the relationship between music, image, and language. Sound Forms illustrates that visualization can serve not only as a scientific tool of analysis but also as a poetic medium that renders the world of sound in new and unexpected ways.