Artist Stephen Orlando has discovered the key to photographing sound: LED lights and long exposures.
As part of his Motion Exposure series, the Ontario-based photographer handed violinists and cellists bows affixed with multicolored lights and asked them to play. These custom bows, combined with a low-light setting and a long exposure, make for photographs that turn small movements into shining bands of color.
Orlando tells Colossal he drew inspiration from light painter Gjon Mili, who created his own series of violin light paintings in 1952.
"This technique reveals beautiful light trails created by paths of familiar objects," Orlando writes on his website. "These light trails have not been artificially created with Photoshop and represent the actual paths of the objects."
Previously, Orlando has used this technique to photograph friends kayaking and paddle boarding across wide bodies of water and skating across ice rinks during games of hockey.
See more of Orlando's work on his website, Facebook and Instagram.
[H/T: Colossal]