Two hours of simulated Chladni patterns, drawn by code not filmed
Eidophone publishes a long-form ambient loop of plate patterns and is unusually straight about the fact that none of it is a real plate.
youtube.com ↗120 min
FeedEverything we are watching and reading on visible sound
Schladni solves real plate eigenmodes in your browser
A WebGPU simulator that uses Kirchhoff–Love plate theory and real material constants instead of the usual closed-form shortcut.
github.com ↗6 min
A tiny cymatics toy that models both a plate and a drumhead
Olivier Giulieri's MIT-licensed demo computes square-plate trigonometry and circular Bessel functions, with no libraries at all.
github.com ↗4 min
A browser particle toy posted as a cymatics playground
Real-time visuals with sliders for particle count, force and trail opacity — and its author's own honest label.
cymatics.grok.me ↗5 min
Rubens tube, Chladni plate and levitation in one syllabus lecture
An hour-plus classroom lecture that treats all three as applications of the same standing-wave physics, with board work and demonstrations.
youtube.com ↗68 min
Where the 432 Hz claim actually comes from
Wikipedia's concert pitch article traces the tuning to the Schiller Institute and scientific pitch, and is blunt about the health claims.
en.wikipedia.org ↗14 min
3D-Chladni turns system audio into a modal particle field
A web, Electron and Metal screensaver project that builds nodal structures live from spectrum and energy rather than replaying animation.
github.com ↗5 min
QLC+ is free lighting control that speaks everything your rig does
Apache-licensed, cross-platform DMX software with MIDI, OSC and Art-Net in, so audio and light can share a clock.
github.com ↗4 min
What Wikipedia's cymatics article actually covers
A serviceable orientation to the field that credits Hooke, Chladni, Faraday and Jenny — and sits in the pseudoscience category.
en.wikipedia.org ↗12 min
What to buy first: a beginner's cymatics kit question, answered
A June 2026 thread where the honest answer to the equipment question turns out to be a single speaker.
reddit.com ↗4 min
Oliver Beer paints with vibration at Thaddaeus Ropac London
Beer sings inside a prehistoric painted cave and lets the resulting vibrations arrange pigment into permanent patterns.
ropac.net ↗5 min
A New York jeweller is selling cymatic patterns as diamonds
Ruveil maps sound frequencies with software and casts the resulting geometry in precious metal, framed in the language of energetic resonance.
rapaport.com ↗5 min
A tonoscope from a cup, a balloon, a straw and some salt
STEM NOLA films a ninth-grade student demonstrating the simplest tonoscope there is, on a New Orleans television slot.
youtube.com ↗5 min
A real-time pipeline from Chladni pattern to tone
A preprint that classifies plate patterns with a small neural network and maps them back to frequencies in Max/MSP.
arxiv.org ↗20 min
Cymatics Decoded: strong visuals, claims that outrun the evidence
A well-shot 32-minute essay that moves from plate patterns to ancient architecture and then to assertions about DNA that acoustics does not support.
youtube.com ↗32 min
Steve Mould on squeeze-film levitation, a quieter cousin of the standing wave
Not the usual standing-wave levitator: this one holds objects on a thin cushion of air pumped by an ultrasonically vibrating surface.
youtube.com ↗18 min
Chladni patterns rebuilt as five plugins for live visuals
Elie Naulleau demos a set of FFGL plugins that generate rectangular, circular, polygonal and nested plate modes with the mode numbers exposed as controls.
youtube.com ↗19 min
A home-built CT scanner that images sound in three dimensions
PlasmatronX combines Schlieren optics, a rotating turntable and medical imaging code to reconstruct an ultrasonic levitator's pressure field as a 3D volume.
youtube.com ↗10 min
Hans Jenny, the doctor who named the field
A short biography of the Swiss physician who coined cymatics, built the tonoscope, and left two volumes of photographs behind him.
en.wikipedia.org ↗5 min
r/Cymatic is the small subreddit that actually works
Founded in March 2026 after the older subreddit was lost to sample packs, and posting real rigs most weeks.
reddit.com ↗8 min
Hydrogen bubbles arranging themselves like Chladni figures
Ultrasonic vibration of an electrolysis cathode moves gas bubbles into modal patterns and cuts overvoltage by a fifth.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗25 min
A Chladni plate built from household materials, in under two minutes
STEAM Powered Family's short classroom build strips the experiment down to the minimum kit that still produces clean nodal lines.
youtube.com ↗2 min
Why the water answers at half your drive frequency
Wikipedia's Faraday wave entry explains the subharmonic response that catches out anyone driving a vessel with a speaker.
en.wikipedia.org ↗8 min
Chladni patterns as a working luthier's tuning tool
A guitar-making Q&A episode that treats plate modes as a practical way to judge a soundboard, not as a spectacle.
podcasts.apple.com ↗39 min
A £130-ish bench signal generator is the cheapest real upgrade
Koolertron's dual-channel DDS generator gives you fine frequency control and a second phase-locked channel for strobe work.
koolertron.com ↗4 min
A cymatics photographer who also sells personal frequency portraits
Marina Hugues photographs acoustic vibration in French, and offers one-to-one sessions as a music therapist.
instagram.com ↗3 min
Adafruit's 24-LED NeoPixel ring, the default ring-light building block
$16.95, 65.5 mm across, one data pin, and the timing caveat that decides which controller you can use.
adafruit.com ↗3 min
CymaScope, the instrument behind most modern cymatic imagery
The commercial instrument that produces the water-surface images you have probably already seen, and the claims made around it.
cymascope.com ↗5 min
Cymatics Lab, a two-thousand-follower account selling a real kit
The Instagram feed for SoundScribe, a wireless Chladni plate kit, run by the people who make it.
instagram.com ↗3 min
Enttec Open DMX USB is $70 and deliberately dumb
The cheapest sane way to get one DMX universe out of a laptop, provided you know what it leaves out.
enttec.com ↗3 min
Instagram's biggest cymatics account, and the course it sells
296,000 people follow this water-and-light feed, and the bio's main call to action is a paid Cymatics 101 course.
instagram.com ↗6 min
Kymat sells cymatic water images as prints, vinyl and film
A German art project turning water cymatics into a catalogue of prints, albums and 4K films, with prices from €9 to €1,200.
kymat.de ↗4 min
KYMAT, the collective that took water cymatics into galleries
A German art collective posting cymatic water installations and live shows to 33,000 Instagram followers.
instagram.com ↗5 min
KYMAT's site: installations, prints, vinyl and singing bowls
The commercial shape of a cymatics art practice, laid out on one German-language website.
kymat.de ↗6 min
Linden Gledhill's cymatics work is on his site, not Instagram
A photographer's own galleries cover cymatics, ferrofluid and interference patterns; his Instagram has one post.
lindengledhill.com ↗7 min
Nigel Stanford posts on Instagram and nowhere else
The man behind the most-watched cymatics video keeps one live account, and it is not the one you would guess.
instagram.com ↗4 min
On TikTok, the cymatics specialists have almost no reach
KYMAT has 1,796 followers there and Cymatics Lab has 67, on the platform that ought to suit the subject best.
tiktok.com ↗3 min
PASCO's Chladni plates kit is the boring, correct starting point
A square plate, a round plate, fine sand and a shaker: the standard teaching-lab kit, sold without a listed price.
pasco.com ↗3 min
Sound Made Visible is where the CymaScope actually posts
John Stuart Reid's own Instagram has 14 posts; the instrument's working feed is a different handle entirely.
instagram.com ↗5 min
SoundMadeVisible, where the CymaScope side of things is actually sold
The shop attached to CymaScope sells prints and voice imagery alongside sound-therapy PDFs, which tells you something about the audience.
SoundScribe Plus: a 12-inch carbon fibre Chladni plate for $275
The specification of the only consumer Chladni kit we could find, in full and with the gaps noted.
cymaticslab.com ↗4 min
Steve Mould's real accounts, and the three that aren't
The science YouTuber's live handles are @stevemouldscience, @MouldS and @stevemould on TikTok — in that confusing order.
instagram.com ↗4 min
Steve Mould's TikTok is the largest science feed near this subject
360,400 followers and 5.5 million likes on an account posting short-form physics demonstrations.
tiktok.com ↗4 min
The CymArtist, a working cymatics artist with 269 posts
Alex, a self-described cymatics artist, sound technician and composer, posting steadily to a small audience.
instagram.com ↗4 min
The GitHub chladni topic is a usable index of open code
Twenty-odd repositories in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C and Pascal, ranging from teaching toys to GPU solvers.
github.com ↗5 min
The obvious cymatics handles on Instagram are dead ends
Faraday Waves is a band, @chladni is empty, and @cymatics belongs to an account with two posts.
instagram.com ↗3 min
The wave driver is the part people forget to budget for
PASCO's WA-9855 is the electromechanical shaker that actually vibrates a Chladni plate, and it needs a separate signal generator.
pasco.com ↗3 min
TouchDesigner, the node graph most cymatic visuals are built in
Derivative's real-time platform is the common tool behind audio-reactive installation work, and its own curriculum is free to read.
derivative.ca ↗4 min
Schlieren imaging of sound on a strobed LED
A home-built rig that photographs pressure waves in air by syncing an overvolted LED flash to the audio.
hackaday.com ↗4 min
A wall-mounted waveform in an RGB matrix
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, a microphone with automatic gain control, and a 64 by 32 HUB75 panel in a printed case.
hackaday.com ↗3 min
The CymaScope's inventor on sound healing, listened to critically
An 80-minute interview with John Stuart Reid that is worth hearing precisely because of where it overreaches.
podcasts.apple.com ↗80 min
Five people, two years of 40 Hz light and sound
A small MIT follow-up tracks volunteers who kept using daily audiovisual stimulation after their trial ended.
news.mit.edu ↗6 min
When Chladni figures were a parlour experiment
Lucas Thompson on Victorian acoustics primers that told middle-class families to bow a sand-covered plate at home.
publicdomainreview.org ↗22 min
An Arduino ultrasonic levitator, wired and debugged on camera
Science Buddies spends thirty-three minutes on the electronics most levitator videos skip, including why driving transducers straight off Arduino pins is not enough.
youtube.com ↗33 min
The CymaScope app puts a synthetic cymatic display on an iPad
A £12.99 iPad app that renders sound as animated CymaGlyphs, with a 432 Hz comparison feature we would treat carefully.
apps.apple.com ↗3 min
A laser cymatics rig from a soup can and a balloon
A Reddit thread on the cheapest working setup there is, and why its patterns keep changing.
reddit.com ↗5 min
A whole Chladni plate build in forty-four seconds
Promethean compresses the plate build to a vertical short, which turns out to be about the right length for it.
youtube.com ↗1 min
A decade of 40 Hz, reviewed by the lab that started it
Park and Tsai's PLOS Biology essay gathers the animal and human evidence for gamma sensory stimulation in one place.
journals.plos.org ↗30 min
432 Hz versus 443 Hz in an actual trial
Forty-three cancer patients, a body monochord, and a randomised cross-over design that treats the tuning claim seriously.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗25 min
Chladni patterns as a dust brush for Mars rovers
Vibrating a solar panel at the right sequence of frequencies moves Martian dust off it, without moving parts touching the surface.
nature.com ↗20 min
Chladni patterns as a way to clean dust off rover solar panels
A 2025 Scientific Reports paper vibrates panels through a sequence of resonances to shift accumulated dust, and measures the power recovered.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗20 min
A science fair tonoscope, edited down to eight times speed
Leo Kourim compiles every clip from a school tonoscope project into one fast-running fourteen minutes.
youtube.com ↗14 min
AlphaPhoenix films how a standing wave builds, one pulse at a time
A 2024 high-speed look at resonance on strings that shows the transient most demos skip.
youtube.com ↗28 min
Cymatics inside a soap bubble, lit by two rings above
Zulu Cymatics stretches a soap film over a speaker and lights it from overhead with one coloured ring and one white, which is what makes the pattern readable.
youtube.com ↗2 min
A 3D-printed ferrofluid speaker, with schematic and files published
Related rather than strictly cymatic: Electronoobs builds a Bluetooth speaker whose magnetic fluid moves with the music, and gives away the design.
youtube.com ↗12 min
Helen Czerski on seeing sound with sand
A BBC segment that frames the Chladni plate as a way of reading an object's own resonances rather than the sound played at it.
youtube.com ↗5 min
A 16-minute TouchDesigner build for audio-reactive Chladni particles
Factory Settings walks through driving a particle system with the Chladni equation and live audio, start to finish.
youtube.com ↗16 min
Chladni figures driven by an amplifier the maker built himself
The German channel stoppi runs a plate from a speaker and a home-built amplifier, with the full circuit documented on his own site.
youtube.com ↗5 min
Chasing the sources behind the 432 Hz claim
Benn Jordan follows the 432 Hz story back through its citations and finds the trail leads somewhere unpleasant.
youtube.com ↗14 min
The case for Watts Hughes as a sound artist
A peer-reviewed argument that the eidophone belongs in art history, not just in the history of acoustics.
hipatiapress.com ↗25 min
Recreating a title sequence on a vibrating square
Steve Mould noticed the Rings of Power opening looked like Chladni figures, then built a plate to reproduce the shots.
youtube.com ↗13 min
A laser cymatics rig, and a frequency claim worth checking
Mr. E-Scholar builds a laser-and-mirror rig step by step, then proposes a rule about when two-tone figures stand still.
youtube.com ↗24 min
Build Your Own Cymatics Device, with a published materials list
Resonant Devices walks through the key steps of a home cymatics rig and puts the materials list and sourcing links on their site.
youtube.com ↗13 min
Fifty minutes of water cymatics as an album-length installation
Sven Meyer's KYMAT studio films a water-sound installation straight through, with no animation and no cuts to hide behind.
youtube.com ↗50 min
Writing letters with 100 particles on a plate
A closed-loop system that nudges hundreds of solder balls into arbitrary shapes using nothing but plate vibration.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗30 min
Cymatics from a waterproof Bluetooth speaker, no build required
Shawn Picarsic adapts two cheap waterproof speakers into working water cymatics devices with almost no fabrication.
youtube.com ↗10 min
Oobleck on a Chladni plate, chasing three-dimensional figures
RyanMake swaps sand for a non-Newtonian cornflour mixture to see whether plate patterns can be pushed into sculpture.
youtube.com ↗5 min
Reading the CymaScope history page with care
A useful timeline of visible-sound experiments, wrapped in claims that go well past what the physics supports.
cymascope.com ↗8 min
On the Same Wavelength: MIT's short film on the 40 Hz discovery
A seven-minute dramatised piece from the MIT School of Science recreating the early flicker experiments in Li-Huei Tsai's lab.
youtube.com ↗7 min
Make your own tonoscope, from an acoustics research institute
Southampton's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research puts out a home tonoscope build and asks viewers to send back their results.
youtube.com ↗5 min
The original cymatics subreddit is now a sample-pack swap
r/Cymatics still carries the title Physical Manifestations of Sound, and has not seen a cymatics post since 2020.
reddit.com ↗3 min
Alexander Lauterwasser's water sound images, as filmed by ARTE
A German-language television piece on the photographer whose book Wasser Klang Bilder defined the look of water cymatics.
youtube.com ↗14 min
Charles Taylor demonstrates Chladni figures for the Christmas Lectures
A ten-minute clip from the 1989 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in which the plates are a stop on the way to explaining musical instruments.
youtube.com ↗10 min
The Welsh singer whose sound pictures were thought lost
Rob Mullender-Ross on Margaret Watts Hughes, the eidophone, and a set of images rediscovered after decades.
publicdomainreview.org ↗18 min
Chladni Screen is a £1.99 pocket plate simulator
A small iOS and Mac app that draws Chladni figures from live audio input, with the mixed reviews you would expect at that price.
apps.apple.com ↗3 min
MIT's Picower Institute explains its 40 Hz light-and-sound research
A four-minute institutional video on GENUS, the mouse studies behind the claim that 40 Hz stimulation affects Alzheimer's pathology.
youtube.com ↗4 min
What 432 Hz actually sounds like when you test it
Adam Neely takes the tuning systems that 432 Hz advocates propose and plays them, which turns out to be the decisive move.
youtube.com ↗14 min
ElectroBOOM tries to steer particles on a vibrating surface
An electronics channel treats the Chladni plate as a control problem rather than a demonstration, and mostly discovers why it is hard.
youtube.com ↗13 min
Glass beads steered through a maze underwater
Physics World on inverse Chladni behaviour in liquid, where beads run to the antinodes and can be driven one at a time.
physicsworld.com ↗4 min
Cymatics Lab on X: 21 posts and 120 followers
The maker of the SoundScribe Chladni kit has an X account, and almost nobody is reading it.
x.com ↗2 min
Secrets of Cymatics II goes into water memory and cancer cells
Reid's 2018 follow-up lecture makes claims about water memory and cell differentiation that the evidence does not support.
youtube.com ↗42 min
The vanilla-JavaScript Chladni simulation people keep re-finding
Lucio Paiva's 2018 demo is small, fast and readable, and explains its own optimisation tricks.
github.com ↗4 min
Smarter Every Day makes shockwaves visible with schlieren imaging
Destin Sandlin films a bullet's pressure waves with a mirror-based optical set-up, a different way of seeing sound.
youtube.com ↗10 min
Rainbow paint on a speaker, revisited at 12,500 fps
The 2018 follow-up uses borrowed Hasselblad and Vision Research cameras and a much higher frame rate.
youtube.com ↗13 min
The woman who did the maths for Chladni's figures
Hackaday's account of Sophie Germain, who spent eight years on the prize Napoleon set for explaining vibrating plates.
hackaday.com ↗7 min
Le tonoscope: a French home experiment from a physics demo centre
Quebec's Centre de démonstration en sciences physiques shows a simple voice-driven tonoscope in under three minutes.
youtube.com ↗3 min
Laurette Tuckerman on the exotic patterns of Faraday waves
A 32-minute research lecture on the fluid dynamics behind the patterns that appear on a vertically shaken liquid.
youtube.com ↗32 min
Both CymaScope accounts on X have posted nothing at all
The instrument's own website links an X account that has 437 followers and zero posts since 2017.
x.com ↗2 min
Build an acoustic levitator over a weekend
A 27-step Instructables guide to a standing-wave levitator that holds water droplets and small components in mid-air.
instructables.com ↗30 min
A laser, a mirror and a plastic bucket as a sound visualiser
Bruce Yeany bounces a laser off a mirror glued to a vibrating membrane, and separately turns a bucket lid into a Chladni surface.
youtube.com ↗11 min
A better way to think about resonance, using flame
Mould argues the usual textbook account of resonance is misleading, and uses a Rubens tube to make the case.
youtube.com ↗13 min
Music played into a soap film, in interference colours
A physicist suspends a vertical soap film across the end of a tube, plays music down it, and films the colours reorganising.
youtube.com ↗2 min
John Stuart Reid's Secrets of Cymatics lecture, and what to take from it
A 32-minute talk from the 2016 Water Conference in Sofia by the inventor of the CymaScope, mixing instrument detail with large claims.
youtube.com ↗32 min
The 40 Hz flicker study that started it
MIT's 2016 announcement: an hour of LEDs flickering at 40 Hz changed amyloid levels in mice engineered for Alzheimer's.
news.mit.edu ↗6 min
Kymat's Sonic Water: a camera, a dish of water and a live feed
Sven Meyer and Kim Pörksen's interactive installation films a vibrating water container and projects the result.
youtube.com ↗4 min
Holograms for sound, printed in plastic
A 3D-printed plate that encodes an entire sound field, shaping ultrasound into arbitrary patterns and moving objects with it.
nature.com ↗25 min
How random is the motion off the nodal lines?
Aalto researchers show that particles wandering between the nodes of a Chladni plate are predictable enough to steer.
nature.com ↗25 min
Faraday instability, and droplets that walk on their own waves
A short laboratory clip from the ENS showing the fluid instability that underlies every vibrating-liquid cymatics rig.
youtube.com ↗2 min
Chladni plates on a classroom budget, from scrap parts
Bruce Yeany makes a mechanical driver out of a discarded speaker and cuts plates from sheet metal, replacing several hundred pounds of lab kit.
youtube.com ↗6 min
Steve Mould bows a plate and couscous snaps into Chladni figures
A four-minute explainer that treats Chladni figures as two-dimensional standing waves and shows why the grains move to the nodes.
youtube.com ↗4 min
A weekend build for your first Chladni plate
Make: magazine's five-minute build guide, aimed at someone who has never driven a plate before.
youtube.com ↗5 min
TED-Ed on the physics of a guitar string, the one-dimensional case
A five-minute animated lesson by Oscar Fernando Perez on how a plucked string, its harmonics and the body make sound.
youtube.com ↗5 min
Acoustic levitation filmed at 20,000 frames per second
Destin Sandlin borrows a Phantom high-speed camera to look at what actually happens to a droplet held in an ultrasonic standing wave.
youtube.com ↗7 min
Search cymatics on X and you get a sample-pack company
Cymatics.fm has 6,732 followers on X, 364,000 on Instagram, and has quietly taken over the word online.
x.com ↗3 min
Twelve piano notes imaged on a water membrane
The CymaScope channel's best-known clip, and a useful case study in separating good footage from overreaching claims.
youtube.com ↗4 min
How the Chladni plate in Stanford's video was actually rigged
A short companion clip that explains the speaker-and-plate set-up behind the sand patterns in CYMATICS.
youtube.com ↗2 min
The music video that taught the internet the word cymatics
Nigel Stanford's 2014 film pairs a track with real Chladni plates, a Rubens' tube, ferrofluid and a Tesla coil, and has been watched tens of millions of times.
youtube.com ↗6 min
The six rigs behind the most-watched cymatics video
Nigel Stanford's own page breaks his 2014 film into its experiments, and admits the music came last.
nigelstanford.com ↗6 min
The Santa Fe Institute puts Chladni plates in a maths-and-music concert
A short film from the Music + Math project with the Santa Fe Symphony, using the plate to tie vibrating strings to geometry.
youtube.com ↗6 min
Physics Girl links Chladni plates to guitar strings and wine glasses
Dianna Cowern's 2014 explainer treats the plate as one more standing-wave system alongside strings and glasses.
youtube.com ↗4 min
Veritasium's Pyro Board: standing waves drawn in flame
A two-dimensional Rubens' tube from Fysikshow Aarhus, with Derek Muller explaining what the flame heights show.
youtube.com ↗7 min
The Slow Mo Guys pour paint on a speaker at 2,500 fps
Gav and Dan's 2013 clip shows a cone's motion through paint, filmed on a Phantom Flex.
youtube.com ↗6 min
Brusspup's sand-on-a-plate video, with the frequencies on screen
A 2013 Chladni plate sweep shot on PASCO lab gear that became one of the most-watched cymatics clips on YouTube.
youtube.com ↗4 min
Why water seems to freeze in brusspup's speaker and hose trick
The famous water-and-sound video is a camera effect: a hose vibrated at a speaker's frequency, filmed at 24 frames per second.
youtube.com ↗2 min
Hans Jenny's original 1960s cymatics films, uploaded in three parts
Archive footage of the Swiss doctor who coined the word cymatics, showing powders, pastes and liquids driven by sound.
youtube.com ↗9 min
Physics Girl's X account, and what it is now about
206,000 followers, 11,999 posts, and a bio that now points at long COVID rather than physics videos.
x.com ↗3 min
Harvard's lecture-demonstration team bows four brass Chladni plates
A no-frills university demo with round, square and stadium-shaped plates, and notes on how touching the edge changes the mode.
youtube.com ↗4 min
Alligators make Faraday waves on purpose
Male alligators bellow at a frequency low enough to throw standing wave patterns off the water on their backs.
wired.com ↗4 min
Two minutes of Hans Jenny's original cymatics footage
The short excerpt of the Swiss doctor's films that has done most of the work of introducing people to the term.
youtube.com ↗2 min
Evan Grant's six-minute TED talk on making sound visible
The 2009 TEDGlobal talk that introduced cymatics to a general audience, from the founder of the arts collective seeper.
youtube.com ↗6 min
Sixty Symbols visits Chladni's plate with physicist Roger Bowley
A 2009 Nottingham physics demo that swaps the violin bow for an electronic driver and lets the professor explain.
youtube.com ↗6 min
Meara O'Reilly sings Chladni patterns into being
A 2009 work in progress in which the composer uses her voice, not a signal generator, to find the modes of a plate.
youtube.com ↗4 min
Steve Mould on X, and the impostor with the better handle
30,704 followers, 4,360 posts, and a handle one letter away from a stranger's dormant account.
x.com ↗3 min
Soap films as a model of quantum chaos
Vibrate a soap film in a frame and its normal modes reproduce the wavefunctions of quantum billiards, scars included.
arxiv.org ↗20 min
Margaret Watts Hughes explains her own eidophone
Her 1891 Century Magazine article, in her own words: a rubber membrane, a wide-mouthed tube, and a singing voice.
archive.org ↗20 min
Faraday, 1831: when the powder goes the other way
The paper that gave us Faraday waves, inverse Chladni patterns, and an honest account of air currents over a vibrating plate.
archive.org ↗60 min
Chladni's 1787 book, scanned, plates and all
The founding text of visible sound, free to read: 77 pages of German Fraktur and eleven engraved plates of figures.
archive.org ↗30 min