Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The Magic of Synethesia and Cymatics



Synesthesia is the rare ability for someone to have two or more of their senses “blend together,” so to speak.  Think about it this way.  What if that every time you hear a certain sound, you taste something in your mouth?  Or you see a flash of color that no one else can see?  Personally, I had never heard of this condition but I am too intrigued.  The fact that people live their everyday lives experiencing such moments can really allow someone to exceed in certain skills, such as memorization, or even something a little more artistic, like music.
Speaking of music, being that it is a collection of sounds in harmony to create something pleasing (or displeasing, in some cases), the vibrations in the air actually can be visually depicted in a phenomena called Cymatics.  Now, Cymatics is a very interesting as the subject actually is created based on the vibrations the sound causes.  These vibrations will cause thin particles to move and form geometrical shapes based on the frequency of the waves.  I believe that this shows how the vibrations affect matter if it is solely concentrated in one location.  When seeing the visual audacity of Cymatics, people can understand the artistic wonder that they create.  It just amazes me how something so beautiful can be hidden away in front of our eyes and we would have known about it.  What is the world without experiments?

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