A video from TED talks. I thought this was a really interesting subject; giving sound a form. What if the touch of the user creates its own image as feedback, if that makes any sense
Jackie: Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. It is amazing, and so apropos for this blog and class. Do you think that there is a strong and obvious connection between the sounds and the visualization through cymatics? Vision and sound are very different: 1. Vision is acquired all at once, while sound is necessarily sequential and time-based 2. There is no simple corollary between attributes of sounds (pitch, rhythm, loudness, etc.)and those of images (color, brightness, contrast, etc.) 3. Vision is superior for distinguishing individual images that overlap or are co-incident.
While I don't think that a piece of music and its cymatic equivalent are equivalent or even analogous, the experience of watching the cymatically-generated visuals while listening to Beethoven is engaging and fun, its not clear to me that this method improves our ability to learn from the experience of listening to music. I need to be convinced that this actually stimulates comprehension, and is not just basically Laser Floyd.
Jackie, I am interested your comment about "the touch of the user creates its own image as feedback". That makes a lot of sense. There is an artist named Danny Rosin that makes amazing "mirrors", where a camera's view is displayed with a matrix of flipping wooden paddles or pieces of trash.
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ReplyDeleteThanks so much for bringing this to my attention. It is amazing, and so apropos for this blog and class. Do you think that there is a strong and obvious connection between the sounds and the visualization through cymatics? Vision and sound are very different:
1. Vision is acquired all at once, while sound is necessarily sequential and time-based
2. There is no simple corollary between attributes of sounds (pitch, rhythm, loudness, etc.)and those of images (color, brightness, contrast, etc.)
3. Vision is superior for distinguishing individual images that overlap or are co-incident.
While I don't think that a piece of music and its cymatic equivalent are equivalent or even analogous, the experience of watching the cymatically-generated visuals while listening to Beethoven is engaging and fun, its not clear to me that this method improves our ability to learn from the experience of listening to music. I need to be convinced that this actually stimulates comprehension, and is not just basically Laser Floyd.
Jackie, I am interested your comment about "the touch of the user creates its own image as feedback". That makes a lot of sense. There is an artist named Danny Rosin that makes amazing "mirrors", where a camera's view is displayed with a matrix of flipping wooden paddles or pieces of trash.
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