# Drawn Sound [Wikipedia — Sound-on-film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film) ( Type: Technique ) ## Description Placeholder page for graphical/drawn sound techniques — synthesizing audio by drawing or painting directly onto a film's optical soundtrack (e.g. ornamental sound, graphical sound synthesis). ## Key Tags #drawn-sound ## Essential Works %% none yet %% ## Details %% none yet %% ### Concepts and Theories - [[Visual Music]] - drawn sound sits at the intersection of visual music's synesthetic aims and optical-sound technique ### Related Practices - [[Drawn on Film]] - shares a camera-less, hand-drawn approach applied to sound rather than image ### Key Practitioners - [[Arseny Avraamov]] - Soviet pioneer of "ornamental sound," synthesizing audio by drawing directly onto film's optical track - [[Boris Yankovsky]] - developed graphical sound synthesis techniques for generating tone from hand-drawn waveforms on film ### Institutional Affiliations %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%