Sonic Science

what is cymatics?

Cymatics is the study of sound, or vibration, and matter - I study liquid cymatics, taking images of lights reflecting off a surface of a fluid in a pan that is attached to a speaker oscillating up and down according to a specific input. The input could be audible (what we call sound), or inaudible in a range called the infrasonic range. By rhythmically wiggling the surface of a fluid up and down, we can induce geometric forms on the surface known as standing waves. Reflecting lights down upon those geometric waves gives us the familiar images and videos we know as liquid cymatics.
Follow the links below to learn more about this incredible science!

Solar Neutrino Cymatics

A viewer recently shared a video from NASA neutrino detector "after 306.3 days of operation, recording the energy spectrum of recoil electrons from Solar neutrino collisions with atomic electrons." This is the resulting experiment, using a 2-inch-wide dish containing 30 mL of a special fluid I use for cymatics.

Frame Rate Magic

This video features an exploration into interactive digital backgrounds with paired cymatics video. The audio here is Tipper - Dreamsters, an excellent pairing to these visuals! Check out more videos there on my Youtube channel!

Bio-Resonance

Heartbeat Cymatics

♥️ If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of a powerful heartbeat recorded with a Doppler heart monitor.

Cat Purr Cymatics

🐈 Have you ever *seen* a cat’s purr? Now, you can! In this video, you see the cymatics of a cat’s purr that cycles with its breath.

Whale Cymatics

🐋 This call specifically came from a father whale circling around a mother and baby, who can be heard in the extended recording.

Beehive Cymatics

🐝 This is what happened when I played the sounds of a beehive through a dish of liquid with lights reflecting down onto the surface!

A Mr. E Short - Multifrequency Cymatics

In this short video, I show some capabilities of our Halo Light System analog RGB and brightness controller while I display multifrequency cymatics of a 4.44Hz square wave and its octave, an 8.88Hz square wave. I have the 4.44Hz square wave set at a 90-degree phase, so you hear a bit of a horse-galloping sound with the timing.

A Mr. E Short - Tweezer Resonance

One day I was helping one of my daughters get a splinter out of her foot. After successful retrieval, I bonked the tweezers on my knee and they rung out like a tuning fork! We were instantly intrigued, and opened up the oscilloscope app on my phone to investigate. Sure enough, the tweezers ring in at 135Hz, which is a little sharp of the C3 note. Watch this video and learn more about tweezer resonance, and resonance in general!

Mr. E's Mysteries - Episode #3 - Cymatics: Matter & Sound

This 1.5-hour long episode is FULL of science, art and mystery where we explore the basics of sound to understand the process and science of cymatics.
While we discover the magic of DIY liquid and laser cymatics, I pose questions of the nature of sound, vibration, and pattern. Though this is a beautiful and awe-inspiring venture through imagery, we will take the route of a scientist and experiment using the concept of resonant frequency.
Throughout the demonstration we explore concepts such as calculating a fundamental resonant frequency, using pi and the Schumann frequency as beat patterns, and more.

Mr. E's Mysteries - Episode #4 - Cymatics: History's Secrets

Continuing on from Episode #3, I discuss topics of sonic science from ancient history to modern technology, such as:

Ancient cultures, megalithic structures and levitation
Animal communication and fractal phenomena
The Flower of Life as a possible cymatics grid and a new atomic theory based on Platonic solids
Applications of cymatics from higher-dimensional art to holograms and levitation

Is there a forgotten technology based on sound?
What more could the ancients have known about the universe through their perspective of sonic mastery?

The Lion-Sun
Connection

Have you ever wondered why ancient cultures associated the lion with the sun?
In this short video I present scientific (acoustic) evidence that there may truly be a connection between the lion and the sun.
By calculating the sonic frequency of the sun's photosphere and raising the result to an audible level in an appropriate octave range, I show how the vocalizations of the male African lion resonate precisely with the resulting frequency of the sun.

Check out these videos from my series on Coffee Cymatics where I use coffee as the liquid for the cymatics!