A drawing you sing · Est. 2019
A whistlegraph is a drawing you sing. You draw it while you sing it, and the finished picture is a score — it teaches you how to play it. I started making them in 2019; the trio drew millions of them onto TikTok. This is the index.
Every whistlegraph has a code.
Type
Type
imab at aesthetic.computer
to perform it — or open whistlegraph.org/imab.
A short code for a whole song.
Index
… whistlegraphs recovered so far. Still being combed. Tap a code.
A rough spine
2019 The form is invented.
2020 The trio forms in a cabin in Ashland.
2021 Rhizome commissions The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (So Far).
2022 Ten Whistlegraphs at Feral File. The New Museum. Taipei Dangdai.
2023 The zine (Sex Magazine, 750 copies).
2026 The project archive releases on whistlegraph.org.
Elsewhere
- TikTok — where it grew (2.6M, no ads)
- Record your own — the recorder, on aesthetic.computer
- What's Inside Your Heart? — the official music video
- Feral File · Rhizome · Are.na
- The zine + shop · Music 2 Whistlegraph 2
Code
The graphic score. Trace the lines; sing the words.