#Cymatics

PraveenMohanPraveenMohan
2025-05-03

𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬!

This ancient temple in India has stunning ceiling carvings that look like parts of advanced machines, even though they were made over 700 years ago. Some say these ceilings could rotate, and the perfectly shaped pillars hint at the use of ancient tools like lathe machines.

Watch full video: youtu.be/nBual9oSe5E

MuSociety(Bam Dorner)MuSociety@musicians.today
2025-03-20

Cymatics Ocean Pluck Sample Collection (Beta Pack) WAV MiDi [FREE]

Unreleased Melodies from Ocean Pluck's Bonus Pack Collection!

So many producers have been hitting me up about Ocean Pluck coming this Friday. But there’s something I haven’t told you about yet…

After making a bunch of songs with it, somethin

music-society.de/cymatics-ocea

#MIDI #Wav #beta #Collection #Cymatics #free #MIDI #Pluck #wav

Anne-Sophie Marquantannesophiemarquant
2025-03-17

La cymatique permet de visualiser les ondes sonores par la mise en vibration d'un corps (eau, sable). Voici mes premiers essais lors d'une captation réalisée à Technocité en mars 2023. Merci à Didier Bayaert pour la mise au point du système et à Chris Cambier, Edouard Van Bree, Irving Durieux, Lucas Verbayst et Johan Rossignol pour les images ! Fine équipe ! 😃
youtube.com/watch?v=4EMIFPyB7k

Jimmerjmychal90
2025-03-15
2025-01-29

🧪 Science is amazing!

Check out how different frequencies shape salt into stunning patterns. 🌀🔬

The beauty of cymatics in action! Watch the magic unfold here: youtube.com/shorts/mRt0tqwSDMw 🎶✨

#ScienceIsAwesome #Cymatics #Physics #SoundWaves #STEM #CoolExperiments #NatureAndScience #FrequencyMagic #Science

Laura Ritchie 🌸lauraritchie
2024-09-26

I had the HUGE pleasure and privlige of playing to Dame Evelyn Glennie last weekend. I was playing a solo cello with cymatics. She played in a piece after me. The event was signed in BSL. After I said to my friend - did you notice she played with no shoes on? and he said no, why? (he didn't know she is deaf & feels the music that way) He was absoluetely blown away. She is a stunning artist & was so kind and liked my piece!

It was a magical evening!

2024-03-12

I made a little game where you get to write a tune and hear me play it on my cello – and it works! Really it’s a static web page that has interactive elements. For anyone who does web development it is very basic, but you know, I made it. I am not a coder by training, but sure I typed code before… (*cough*) Ok, in 1983, and the computer language was called ‘basic’ for a reason. For a cello playing, psychology talking, running TikTok of a gal, this challenge stretched me, and I am pretty pleased to have successful code that plays (literally!). Also, I now have at least 25 new brain cells as a result of the past few days.

The Page: Composing with Cymatics

It relates to my longstanding Resonance Project, which is all about experiencing music holistically, through multiple senses. A big part of the project involves cymatics, the science of visualizing music. Cymatics makes the wave patterns of notes visible. 

For this gamified page I took the cymatic patterns for five notes (above), from an F pentatonic scale and programmed both the audio and visuals for the notes into the page. You choose notes and they make a tune. Well, you press a button that says ‘play the music’ and your chosen notes are displayed and played in order (by me on my cello!). It’s good! and fun!

The Process (coding!)

Oh my goodness it was not easy! There was essential advice from others. I had great help from some extremely kind people on Mastadon, who suggested different methods of displaying the notes and audio… and I learned a few key phrases, like the ‘image is the carrier of the user choice’. My code started with a LOT of logical thought and carefully constructed directions to ChatGPT. Then there were dozens of iterations on how to refine (to debug) the code. The process began with this:

Can you please create code for a static webpage that allows the user to select and sequence a set of 5 images, where each image is associated with an audio file, and then to run the sequence, playing the associated audio files in the selected order. Please create the code using use any combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I would like the 5 images to be the visual ‘carrier’ of the user choice. For coding purposes, you can assume the image files are labelled img1.png, img2.png, img3.png, img4.png, and img5.png and the audio files are labelled audio1.mp3, audio2.mp3, audio3.mp3, audio4.mp3, and audio5.mp3.

Now, I certainly confirm ChatGPT cannot be trusted, and correcting this code seriously took me at least 25 iterations, and then serious help from real (very smart) people to get it right. Creating a static page solved the provlem of WordPress breaking the functionality of the JavaScript. That was a steep learning curve. Then I found my code had some outer layer on it (that I couldn’t see) written in WYSIWYG. This convaluted cover up has loads of ‘stuff’ in the way of the code. Even when I correctly followed all the tutorial directions to make my new page and upload the code, it failed. I didn’t know about this layer I couldn’t see…  Enter the incredibly smart and genuinely kind humans to save the day and get rid of that unseen layer of yuck.

Happily, now it works beautifully. I can also say that after the entire process I actually do understand the HTML I used: how to arrange and adapt it. I can create my own subdomain and correctly label folders and files so it runs smoothly with clean paths.

In gaming terms: I levelled up. (woo hoo ! insert happy dance here)

Give it a try!

I am sure the page can be more beautiful and I am also sure I will continue to make it more beautiful. For now, please enjoy my game here: Composing with Cymatics. And do let me know what you think! 🙂

 

HUGE thanks go to @urlyman @cogdog @crash @timmmmyboy @Downes for their knowledge, help, and patience!

 

https://www.lauraritchie.com/2024/03/12/i-made-this/

#Cymatics #ChatGPT #Coding #Game #kindness #Resonance #Webpage

Five cymatic images, of the notes F, G, A, C, DPlay the Music button with five cymatic images below. A blue border is around one note.
Laura Ritchie 🌸lauraritchie
2024-03-12

I made this !
I made a little game where you get to write a tune and hear me play it on my cello - and it works! Really it's a static web page that has interactive elements. For anyone who does web development it is very basic, but you know, I made it. I am not a coder by training, but sure I typed code before... (*cough*) Ok, in 1983, and th
lauraritchie.com/2024/03/12/i-

nemo™ 🇺🇦nemo@mas.to
2023-12-23

The #Sound That Transforms Every #Cell in Your #Body (the sound of God)

youtube.com/watch?v=XWLXdcwYU2

#cymatics

Laura Ritchie 🌸lauraritchie
2023-10-15

as a follow up... if anyone would like me to visit and perform live to a group / audience -- in a space, or educational place, or gallery, I would very much welcome that! And yes, I am open to travelling to get to where you are!

resonance.lauraritchie.com/


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Laura Ritchie 🌸lauraritchie
2023-10-15

The Resonance Project

I'm doing a big project to gather people's views on a piece of music that was composed to be multisensory. I've worked over the past few years to realise this, and it's ready for listeners/viewers.
Here's the page: resonance.lauraritchie.com/

Please join in, and share your views. It's a 13 min piece of music and it is made to be heard, seen, and felt. I hope to get 1000 replies from across the world. Please boost!

2023-08-15

#listening to Cymatics vs. Music by cybernetic musical tinkerer Nigel John Stanford, from Te Whanganui-a-Tara:

yewtu.be/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

I saw a live performance of this at an outdoor festival in the city a couple of years back and it was *awesome*. Hearing the tesla coil used as a synthesizer live was electrifying (see what I did there? Again, I'm here all week...):

#music #Aotearoa #NZ #Cymatics #NigelJohnStanford

2023-03-25

I’ve watched this many times and it still keeps me transfixed. How sound frequencies can affect form…

youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9f

“Cymatics features audio visualised by #science experiments - including the Chaldni Plate, Ruben's Tube, Tesla Coil and Ferro Fluid.”

#Cymatics is the study of vibrational frequencies manifested as sound and seen as form, usually on a solid metal surface… shift.is/cymatics/

Also see #Rosslyn frequencies: crystalinks.com/StuartMitchell

2023-03-10

Image of the note D3 produced with cymatics

I spent months working on a cello piece composed for me by Jill Jarman. She wrote it with the intention of using cymatics to enhance the music and the musical experience. I made that happen first in a concert in the UK and then in my TEDx talk in LA in June 2022. I recently wrote up the whole process and explained the science behind what I did. You can read it, see example images, and listen to snippets of my performance with and without the cymatic images.

The article appears in a special issue on ‘Special Collection on Contemporary Auditory Ecosystems and Innovative Musical Contexts: Insights into the Aesthetics and Perception of Sonorous Objects’ in the journal Music & Science. My article is all on cymatics and how I used it to make music accessible in a more multi sensory way. You can read it here: Multisensory Music performance with Cymatic Images

Let me know what you think! I’d love to hear your comments!

Laura

#cymatics #jarman #cello #performance

https://www.lauraritchie.com/2023/03/10/cymatics-research-article/

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