Vymatics

"The geometry of the shapes is solidified music" - Pythagoras

From ancient Greek: κῦμα, meaning "wave" is what inspired scientist Hans Jenny to use the term Cymatics, to describe a subset of modal vibrational phenomena - the study of visible sound and vibration in the 1960s.  Jenny (1904-1972) was a physician and natural scientist. In 'Cymatics: The Study of Wave Phenomena' he concluded about what he had observed, "This is not an unregulated chaos; it is a dynamic but ordered pattern."

And so, Cymatics refers to the study of the periodical effects that sound and vibrations exercise on matter.  Cymatics can be described as a field of research studying the observations and the measurements of the vibrational sound frequencies interacting with - all kinds of - matter.

By working with Baltimore beatboxer, breath artist and vocal percussionist Dominic "Shodekeh" Talifero, I am finding ways to visualize the dimensional structure within sound through cymatic images in relation to their vibrational frequency. 

For this I created a series of videos, working with a cymatic viewer that creates images in water and other viscous materials. Each projected video is a real time responsive projection of the bio-diverse communications between Shodekeh and other species as they take place in the aquarium setting.