A research practice making sound visible: water, thin films and light driven at key frequencies to reveal the geometry of resonance.
Cymatics is the study of visible sound. Drive a vessel of water, a thin film or a plate at the right frequency and standing waves organise the surface into geometry: rings, lattices, rotating lobes. Each medium and each vessel has its own set of resonances, so every combination reveals something different.
Our rigs pair audio with programmable light: RGB LED ring arrays driven by Arduino and DMX, strobing that phases against the sound to make patterns glide, and vessels that vary in size, depth and geometry. Alongside the water work sit experiments in high-performance bubbles, where thin-film interference adds colour to the form.
The same relationships between frequency and form show up in medicine, acoustics and material science. We document what we find as film, live displays and interactive tools so artists, students and researchers can grasp the connection between sound, matter and geometry for themselves.