US artist collective Dearraindrop brought their colour-reading sound-making devices to Art City in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

We covered a huge piece of white paper with paint, crayons, markers and sticker vinyl. Then we took Dearraindrop's colour readers, recorded samples of voice, toy accordion, recorders, or anything really, into them and then waved the devices over the colours. The devices read the colours and translated them as sounds, versions of the samples we had inputted, varying pitch and speed depending on the colour. (For instance, we found that waving the sensor over dark blue rendered a sound that was truest to the original sample recording; other colours made it squeak or bellow.)

Everyone collaborated. Also fun was playing with Dearraindrops musical instruments, where you can input sound into the microphone and then mess around with the playback, like on the riotously painted guitar you see my brother playing at the end of the video.

Dearraindrop were in Winnipeg as part of the Send + Receive Festival.