Sound Beast Pod #42

The “Sound Beasts” are an embodiment of music, sound, and rhythm through a visually abstracted style that aligns with artist Laura-Susan Thomas’s love of fantasy and science fiction. They’re conceived as being made up of both mechanical components and organic matter; therefore, becoming improbable, imagined, living, breathing creatures. 

Within their mechanical parts, hardware inspired by musical instruments from across the globe can be found in the abstracted style used. Shapes take form from a lever on a wind instrument, or the turns of a French horn. Line and shape may look like an alien language or symbols from music theory. 

Like pods of whales singing out to the world, the Sound Beasts call to each other in song. The beast furthest right - a Cyberpunk-like creature - conducts an orchestra while in motion as two other beasts follow, making mechanical movements that produce the sounds of instruments, composition, orchestra, and human voice. “I look up and suddenly it is an alternative, otherworldly, steampunk reality I’m living in,” said Thomas. “As familiar as seeing a flock of birds in the sky, I see these majestic, creatures fly by me.