What is soundwave art?

Soundwave art is a unique way of visualising sound. It takes an audio recording, like a song, voice message, or even a heartbeat, and translates it into a visual representation. This visualisation typically consists of lines that rise and fall, mimicking the wave patterns of the sound.

Soundwave art is often displayed horizontally and can be as short as a single note or word, or as long as a song, or even a playlist. Voice soundwaves make thin soundwave shapes. Songs typically produce thicker soundwave shapes.

Like this: -

Here are the actual sounds used for both of these example waveforms :-

How is soundwave art made?

Soundwave art uses the shape of the soundwaves produced by any given sound as a feature, with either a design custom fitted inside the soundwave shape, or otherwise using the soundwave shape as part of a larger design.

Thin soundwave shapes such as voice or heartbeat soundwaves typically suit a simple design like these examples of a cat purring and an ultrasound baby heartbeat soundwave.

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Many song soundwaves have greater width which allows for images to be placed inside the soundwave shape. The music example we've used here features a prominent guitar, so we added a guitar pic to the soundwave shape - pic courtesy of Edward Eyer: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-playing-guitar-811838/

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Soundwave art design options

Soundwave art designs are often displayed horizontally as above and sometimes in a circular pattern like this :-

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Here at Munki Magik we make both types, and also create unique vinyl record style soundwave art designs :-

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All of our personalised soundwave art designs are playable with our free smartphone app. No QR or Spotify codes needed, and no tech expertise required, just scan your print to play it.

Check out our personalised sound wave art collection for ideas and inspiration and don't forget you can get in touch with your email below to request your FREE design mockup :)