Name: 【TED】Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics (Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics)
Uploaded: 2016-12-16T13:53:10.000Z
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and the focus of my work is on public installations.

and trying to find hidden data within nature.

this latent potential everywhere, all around us.

whether it's sound or smell or vibration.

trying to find ways to harness and unveil this.

Now, cymatics is the process of visualizing sound

by basically vibrating a medium such as sand or water,

So, if we have a quick look at the history of cymatics

beginning with the observations of resonance,

by Da Vinci, Galileo, the English scientist Robert Hook

He created an experiment using a metal plate,

to create the Chladni patterns that you see here on the right.

Moving on from this, the next person to explore this field

was a gentleman called Hans Jenny in the 1970s.

the metal sheet, this time connected to a sound driver

so do the complexities of the patterns that appear on the plate.

Well, for me cymatics is an almost magical tool.

It's like a looking glass into a hidden world.

Through the numerous ways that we can apply cymatics,

we can actually start to unveil the substance of things not seen.

Devices like the cymascope, which you can see here,

have been used to scientifically observe cymatic patterns.

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

a lexicon of dolphin language is actually being created

by basically visualizing the sonar beams that the dolphins emit.

And hopefully in the future we'll be able to gain some deeper understanding

We can also use cymatics for healing and education.

This is an installation developed with school children,

where their hands are tracked. It allows them

and the reflections that are caused by them.

We can also use cymatics as a beautiful natural art form.

This image here is created from a snippet

of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony playing through a cymatic device.

So it kind of flips things on its head a little bit.

playing in real time through the cymascope.

We can also use cymatics as a looking glass into nature.

And we can actually recreate the archetypal forms of nature.

So, for example, here on the left we can see a snowflake as it would appear in nature.

Then on the right we can see a cymatically created snowflake.

And here is a starfish and a cymatic starfish.

in its early days. And there's not many people working in this field.

But consider for a moment that sound does have form.

We've seen that it can affect matter and cause form within matter.

Then sort of take a leap and think about the universe forming.

And think about the immense sound of the universe forming.

And if we kind of ponder on that, then perhaps

cymatics had an influence on the formation of the universe itself.

And here is some eye candy for you, from a range of

I think collectively we can build a global community.

of the substance of things not seen. Thank you.

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【TED】Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics (Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics)

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