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# Voice Figures by Margaret Watts Hughes
- URL: https://techspec.cc/voice-figures-margaret-watts-hughes/
- Published: 2021-04-20T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-21T11:44:16.000Z
- Author: techspec
- Tags: margaret watts hughes, blue, art, abstract

Made more than 100 years ago by a Welsh singer named Margaret Watts Hughes — not by her hand but rather using her voice and an Eidophone, a “recording” device of her own invention. She would sing into the Eidophone’s funnel and so make its diaphragm vibrate. She’d then bring this vibrating diaphragm in contact with a glass plate covered in pigment to create these wondrous images, akin to visual sound recordings, or what she called Voice Figures (and the more complex Impression Figures).

![Single pitch Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, Margaret Watts Hughes, date unknown. ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/02/Figure-4-A-single-pitch.jpg)

Single pitch Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, Margaret Watts Hughes, date unknown. 

![Voice Figure, 3rd interval by Megan Watts Hughes ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/02/Voice-Figure-by-Megan-Watts-Hughes.jpeg)

Voice Figure, 3rd interval by Megan Watts Hughes