Cymatics
Cymatics, from Ancient Greek: κῦμα (kyma), means “wave”, or cymatcs, is the study of visible light or vibration geometry.
Physical patterns are generated when certain material is subjected to vibrations, it then becomes possible to recognize shapes found in all scales of manifestation of the cosmos. With cymatics, it is possible to understand the dynamics of standing waves, which explains the interaction of vibrating frequencies such as sound waves confined in a medium.
Many scientists such as Pythagoras (570 – 495 BC), Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642), Ernst Chladni (1756 – 1827), Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983), Hans Jenny (1904 – 1972) contributed to the studies of the geometry of vibration and visible sound.
"The key to understanding how we can heal the body lies in our understanding of how different frequencies or 'tones' influence our physical reality."
Hans Jenny
Chladni figures
Chladni's figures are common examples of cymatics, made on a thin sheet of metal and that, when sound makes it vibrate, standing waves form patterns, stationary lines, organizing the grains that spread over the sheet.
The resonance patterns of standing waves and the shapes of various elements in nature, such as flowers and electron diffraction from light, indicate the universality that exists to creation manifested through vibration. Being able to work with the processes that create these shapes gives us another view of the world around us, where everything interacts.
