Cymatics

Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste, or liquid.

Quite recently, in March 2024, they reissued an extensively revised version of this composite edition with notes and commentaries by leading experts in the fields of acoustics, the arts, and sound therapies.)

Jenny spread powders, pastes, and liquids on a metal plate connected to an oscillator which could produce a broad spectrum of frequencies.

According to Jenny, these structures, reminiscent of the mandala and other forms recurring in nature, would be a manifestation of an invisible force field of the vibrational energy that generated it.

Similarly, painter and musician Perry Hall uses vibrations from an electric bass to create cymatic patterns in tanks of paint,[7] which he films (the Sound Drawings).

[9] His work in this area included an acoustically vibrated piece of sheet metal in which small holes had been drilled in a grid.

In the mid-1980s, visual artist Ron Rocco, who also developed his work at CAVS, employed mirrors mounted to tiny servo motors, driven by the audio signal of a synthesizer and amplified by a tube amp to reflect the beam of a laser.

In 2005 they created a work called The Rosslyn Motet realised by attempting to match various Chladni patterns to 13 geometric symbols carved onto the faces of cubes emanating from 14 arches.

[14][15] Aphex Twin suggests learning more about cymatics in reference to 'master tuning of 440 Hz' in a conversation with synth-maker Tatsuya Takahashi.

[16] Since 2010, the art collective Analema Group creates participatory performances in which cymatic patterns are produced digitally in real-time by the audience.

[19] In 2020 an official medal was issued by the Royal Dutch Mint to mark the 65th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest hosted by the city of Rotterdam .

To create the coin, all the historical winning songs from previous contests were mixed together and emitted through a speaker.video, The logo and theme art for Eurovision 2022 is based on cymatics.

[21] Inspired by periodic and symmetrical patterns at the air-liquid interface created by sound vibration, P. Chen and coworkers developed a method to engineer diverse structures from microscale materials using liquid-based templates.