Ankh News: The Sigil of Music Excerpt:[What would the music look like if we could see it? Now it is possible thanks to a new scientific “tool” that depicts sound waves in the water. Each note seems to have its own unique fingerprint, a unique ‘signature’. The most impressive thing is that recent experiments showed that dolphins are able to recognize words based on these “signatures” by using them in some unknown way. The CymaScope device records vibrations produced by every single sound on the surface of distilled water. Due to the high surface tension of the water, the vibrations caused by the harmonics of a sound leave a perfectly visible “mark”. Each sound seems to have a unique fingerprint, just like every snowflake has a unique shape. Recently CymaScope was used to visualize for the first time the notes of a piano, upon request of New Zealand artist Shannon Novak. It has also been used to record in pictures the vowel sounds of the human voice, as well as music tracks, like the Pink Floyd’s “Welcome to the machine”. The creation of CymaScope began in 2002. Initially the scientists used a PVC film and then a film of latex, but water was eventually proved the ideal medium. The resulting images resembled a fabulous kaleidoscope, which showed that in addition to audio, the sound can also provide rich visual spectacle. “If our eyes could see music we would not see waves, as many believe, but beautiful holographic bubbles with amazing shapes resembling a kaleidoscope. The CymaScope allows us to see this this hidden beauty” write the tool’s creators, John Stuart Reid and Erik Larson... Source:themindunleashed.org/2014/05/video-music-look-like-see.html
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 03:48:47 +0000
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