Photographycan be used to capture small pieces of the natural world in the form of patterns of growth, movement, distribution, etc.
Sequences, series, and arrays of photographs combine singular pictures to build visual models of the underlying organic structure.

Scanning images into a com- puter systems translates the visual description into a mathe- matical model. Once the forms are in a numeric language, they can easily be manipulated without destroying the internal relationships that define the source.

Translating the data into a musical vocabulary generates an acoustic model of the original subject. The visual and aural are equivalent. A singular image of the same organic patterns is presented to different sensory organs; the eyes and the ears.