What Does the American Flag Sound Like?

The American flag is 64 separate pieces. Thirteen stripes and fifty stars; and you can hear every one of them. Sixteen flags, played as sound. A pen traces each flag and the height of the pen becomes the pitch, so the flag draws its own waveform and fills in as it goes. No narration. Japan is the simplest thing here: one circle, one long bending note. Then it gets worse. India's chakra has 24 spokes and sounds like a swarm. Greece is a staircase of nine stripes. Nepal isn't even a rectangle — it's the only national flag on earth that isn't, and you can hear the two triangles. The United States closes it. Sixty-four pieces, and the pen lifts between every single one, so what you hear is thirteen descending steps and then fifty little strikes. On the same measure that scored Alaska's coastline at 6.19, that flag scores 10.64 — the most complicated thing I've ever traced. Which flag should I do next? 👇