Imagine... you are strolling along the Esplanade at Burning Man, and something catches your eye. Bands of lights are rapidly moving up and down a 30 foot high pyramid, from Red at the bottom, through Orange, Green, Turquoise, Indigo, Violet, and finally White light at the top. Nothing too unusual, but look!
Although commonly defined by its link to audio perception, sound is also “transmitted vibrations of any frequency.” The tree falling in the forest transmits waves, so technically the answer to the question “…does it make a sound?” is yes, regardless of whether anyone’s around.
As I begin to integrate the massive influx of information over the past few months, (much of it originating here from evolver), I find myself surfing the cymatics channels on YouTube.
Here are a couple of links to video series that stand out as extraordinary signposts in this library of babel.
The first is a film from Hans Jenny, a modern founder of the study of Cymatics:
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
