If you’ve ever had the misfortune to sit in a meeting by a brand strategist talking up his latest graphic identity solution, then you might have heard a phrase at some point about graphics being able to ‘speak’.

Graphics don’t speak, obviously, but they can make music, according to Malaysian designer Wen Nam Yap’s new installation called Graphics Speak.

Yap created a system that plays music from a series graphic designs on vinyl records. Each vinyl is scanned on to an analogue television device, which creates an electromagnetic waveform. These are then turned into sound waves using a sensor, and in turn played out a speaker. The result is a tuneful sound that can be altered by changing the graphics of the records being played.