Cymatics Video: The Sound of A Star

by Jodina Meehan on June 3, 2010


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For the first time ever, the sound of a star has been made visible using cymatics. Both the sound and the visual properties of this one-of-a-kind cymatics video are awe inspiring.

Here you can see the beautiful cymatic sound of a star as the fruition of a project by John Stuart Reid in collaboration with Dr Zoltan Kollath who was responsible for preparing the sound file.

The images were created on the CymaScope, a scientific cymatics device created by John Stuart Reid and Eric Larson. To learn more about the CymaScope click here.

Thank you to John Stuart Reid for permission to showcase this cymatics video on the Journal.

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André Steegmans of Belgium has added a beautiful cymatics video of sound waves patterns over at the School of Cymatics.

Try pausing this cymatics video every few seconds as you are watching it, and you will see a completely different, geometrically intricate example of crystal-like sound waves patterns in each frame.

You can watch more of André Steegman’s cymatics videos here at the School of Cymatics.

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