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.
Lectures, shows & press
Talks & lectures
- New Dynamic Graphics — HCI Korea 2020 keynote — 2020
- New Dynamic Graphics — India HCI 2019 — 2019
- Art for COVID Relief India — workshop — 2021 (recording to be posted)
- What is a Picture? — college lecture — 2020
- Radical Digital Painting — 35c3, Leipzig — 2018
- Gazelli Connect Live — 2020
Livestreams & recitals
- Whistlegraph LIVE — the nightly streams — spring 2020
- Whistlegraph LIVE: Cat Charmer — 2021
- Recital @ Kunstverein Hamburg — 2021
- Live in Copenhagen — 2021
- The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far) @ The New Museum — 2022 · trailer
Exhibitions
- Ten Whistlegraphs — Feral File — 2022
- First Look — The New Museum — 2022
- Schneider Museum of Art — Ashland — 2021
- Taipei Dangdai — 2022
Workshops
- Write a Whistlegraph with Rhizome — 2022 · documentation
Press & writing
- What is a Whistlegraph? — Dirt — 2023
- First Look — Rhizome editorial — 2022
- Doodling Clockwork in Lore and Score — Dorothy Howard, Feral File — 2022
- Whistlegraph: Body Language — 2022
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 · Galerie Yeche Lange
- The Whistlegraph Zine + Shop · Music 2 Whistlegraph 2
Code
The graphic score. Trace the lines; sing the words.