Sound

Most of us are used to experiencing sound as an exclusively auditory experience. But scientist and photography enthusiast Linden Gledhill isn't most of us. He sees it. And he's happy to show how. The Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical biochemist has been playing with cymatics for a few years now, and he's come a long way.

"World Record", a new Threadless t-shirt design by Ryder Doty.

German artist Martin Klimas uses splatters of paint positioned on a scrim over a speaker. By turning up the volume, the vibration of the speaker sends the paint dancing as he shoots it through the lens of his Hasselblad camera.

Sorry I'm late. I was listening to "Crazy In Love" on the way here and walking to the beat.

Our school has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards and one of my favorite units in 1st grade is our Sound Unit. NGSS asks that students conduct experiments to explain that vibrations make…

The sublime world of GIF art. WARNING: flashing images.

Fig. 187. The psycho-magnetic curves. The principles of light and color including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo...

The New Landscape in Art and Science is a 1956 book by György Kepes. The Hungarian-born artist, art theorist and educator taught along Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus school in Chicago and later was the founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the MIT. At the institute he was...

Why does the frequency of your music matter?

Dec. 1, 2006. This is an important article to read and study carefully. I suggest that you print it out so you can review it at your leisure and allow the full implications of this information to sink in. One of the 'secrets' of the universe, is the creative application of sound frequencies. John Worley Keely discovered this creative use of musical frequencies in the late nineteenth century and accomplished amazing feats that defied conventional physics and confounded the academicians of his…