Etymology

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Today it means: A form of generative art for which the artist creates a drawing and sings simultaneously; each line in the drawing has a specific sound (pitch or vocalization) associated with it, making the completed image a graphical score that can be reproduced and performed by anyone. Full definition →

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The story

whistle + graphing; a technique developed by artist Jeffrey Scudder in 2019.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.