Photography of Markus Reugels; Paint Splash Series
German artist Markus Reugels specializes in high-speed and macro photography. By isolating the basslines from techno tracks, Markus captured these incredible and brief moments of explosive colour.
He placed a transparent scrim over the diaphragm of a speaker. Then he chooses a song and cranks up the volume, making the splashes of colour jump to the beat of music, all the while capturing it on camera. His playlist varied from Miles Davis to Karlheinz Stockhausen to Kraftwerk.
Klimas spent around 6 months and 1,000 shots to finish the series in his studio in Dusseldorf, Germany. He says he owes his body of work to the influence of Hans Jenny, the father of Cymatics, the study of sound waves and vibration.