Digiti Sonus is an interactive fingerprint sonification or interactive sound installation that transforms human's fingerprints into musical sound. The idea is to allow audience to explore their own identities through unique sound generated by their fingerprint patterns based on algorithmic computing and a physical device. The captured sound is looped and harmonized with other fingerprint sound so that the result is a real time experimental music as a representation of intergrated human identities and societal communication.

Every biologic organism has a unique body pattern. Among all the patterns, fingerprints are the most unique visual patterns in human and primates' bodies. There are only few graphical line patterns in human body such as wrinkles of hand, elbow, and knee, and palm lines. Rather than the others, fingerprints are the only clearly recognizable patterns that can be manipulated and saved into large amount of database. Because of the clarity and uniqueness, fingerprints have been widely used for personal identification. In this digital era, many computer machines and digital interfaces use fingerprints as secure keys and access to identify personal information. Fingerprint identification is one of the most significant biometric technology which has drawn a substantial amount of attention.

I believe fingerprints are the most intuitive and powerful resource to represent individual's pure voice and identity. There is no trick or filter on the fingerprint patterns. Only the simple, spiral pattern stays in the truth of human birth, genes, and growth. The beginning of human birth and natural naming of body itself are contained in this simple and tiny pattern at the end of fingers, the hidden body part. Thus, fingerprint is a great resource not only for finding societal identities, but for exploring our inner, unconscious, and pure voice in our bodies.

My recent works have been exploring interesting results of transformation from natural patterns to sound in digital platform. One of the previous examples is "Tree Rings," which investigates the comparison between the naturally generated tree ring patterns and artificially generated sound tree rings; I captured urban soundscape and transformed the waveform into spiral form. Both tree rings show their different history, time, and space in spiral timeline shapes. Fingerprint is the next project of my on-going sound pattern series. "Digiti Sonus" will effectively deliver my artistic context on the sonic pattern and identity.